Wave Optics

The electron microscope is a viral tool in materials science and in the lige sciences. The images observed can only be interpreted with confidence in the image-forming process is throughly understood. In the third volume, Principles of Electron Optics, the wave optics that enables us to explain the relationship between umage and specimen, especially at high resolution, is presented in detail. Image formation in the electron microscop and electron holography are fully explored and a long section is devoted to methods of processing images with the aid of the computer, to extract all possible information. For completenes, a brief account of beam-specimen interactions in both crystalline and amorphous objects is included and recent ideas about coherence, not hitherto examined in connection with electron microscopy, are summarized. The bibliography, drawn from widely scattered literature of all these topics, is exceptionally comprehensive.Hawkes, Peter W. is the author of 'Wave Optics', published 1994 under ISBN 9780123333544 and ISBN 0123333547.