1st Edition

Industrial Applications Of Electron Microscopy

By Zhigang Li Copyright 2003
    644 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Providing proven strategies for solutions to research, development, and production dilemmas, this reference details the instrumentation and underlying principles for utilization of electron microscopy in the manufacturing, automotive, semiconductor, photographic film, pharmaceutical, chemical, mineral, forensic, glass, and pulp and paper industries. The book covers safety, calibration, and troubleshooting techniques, as well as methods in sample preparation and image collection, interpretation, and analysis. It includes contributions from microscopy experts based at major corporations and scientists from universities and major research centers.

    Biography

    Zhigang R. Li is Senior Research Physicist, Du Pont Central Research and Development, Wilmington, Delaware. The author or coauthor of more than 70 professional publications and book chapters in the microstructural studies of magnetic, electronic, catalyst, pharamceutical, semiconducting, optical and superconducting materials, he is a member of the Microscopy Society of America. The recipient of the Sin-France Abroad Study Award (1982-1986) and the Kazato Research Foundation of Japan Award (1986), he received the B.S. degree (1982) in optics from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China, and the Ph.D. degree (1987) in physics from the Laboratoire d'Optique Electronique du C.N.R.S., Toulouse, France.