| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/N64908/01 |
| Title: |
LOW ENERGY LOSS EELS FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE |
| Principal Investigator: |
Goodhew, Professor PJ |
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School of Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Liverpool |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 November 2001 |
Ends: |
31 October 2004 |
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212,127
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| Materials Characterisation |
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This proposal is to enhance the North-West STEM to make it suitable for analytical experiments involving low energy losses (tuypically SeV or less). The current instrument, installed in 1993, still has a good a spatial resolution for elemental analysis as anmy in the UK. We intend to substantially improve the sensitivity for low energy loss applications, a necessary procedure to enable us to address the problems arising from the inreasing need to relate local chemistry to local densities of states, exemplified by ten projects involving semiconductors (GaAs, GaN and similar alloys), semiconductor/insulator interfaces, superconductors and metallic clusters. A further significant improvement will be the addition of a spectrum imaging facility. this will enable us to extract energy filtered images with energies ranging down to 2 eV.Enhancement of the NW STEM will enable many researchers to work in EELS with very low energy losses (e.g. to see states within the band gap), to map states at specific defects and will, incidentally, keep the X-ray capabilities of the NW STEM at the state of the art for at least another five years.
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http://www.liv.ac.uk |