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Fast joint EELS / EDS color map across the SrTiO3/LaFeO3 interfaces

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Paolo Longo, Ph.D., Gatan, Inc. Sample courtesy of Dr. P. Rice and Dr. T. Topuria at IBM (Almaden), San Jose, CA Microscope courtesy of Dr. P. Rice and Dr. T. Topuria at IBM (Almaden), San Jose, CA Acknowledgements to Dr. P. Rice and Dr. T. Topuria at IBM (Almaden), San Jose, CA for helping set up microscope for experiment.

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Fast joint EELS / EDS color map across a 32 nm transistor device

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Paolo Longo, Ph.D., Gatan, Inc. Sample courtesy of Dr. Pavel Potapov at Global Foundries, Dresden, Germany Microscope courtesy of Dr. P. Rice and Dr. T. Topuria at IBM (Almaden), San Jose, CA Acknowledgements to Dr. P. Rice and Dr. T. Topuria at IBM (Almaden), San Jose, CA for helping set up microscope for experiment.

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Fast Joint EELS / EDS color map of a SrTiO3 crystal

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Paolo Longo, Ph.D., Gatan, Inc. Sample courtesy of Dr. Yan Xin at Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL Microscope courtesy of Professor Gerald Kothleitner, TU-Graz, Austria Acknowledgement to Dr. Arno Meingast at CCEM, TU-Graz, Austria for helping set up microscope for experiment.

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Fast atomic EELS analysis across the GaN/AlGaN interface

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Paolo Longo, Ph.D., Gatan, Inc. Sample courtesy of Dr. Giuseppe Nicotra at IMM-CNR, Catania, Italy Microscope courtesy of Dr. Giuseppe Nicotra at IMM-CNR, Catania, Italy

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First atomic EELS map acquired during volcano eruption

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Paolo Longo, Ph.D., Gatan, Inc. Sample courtesy of Dr. P. Rice and Dr. T. Topuria at IBM (Almaden), San Jose, CA Microscope courtesy of Dr. Giuseppe Nicotra, IMM-CNR, Catania, Italy

The lab where EELS maps were taken is situated at the slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy. Mount Etna is the highest active volcano in Europe. The EELS elemental maps were taken at high speed during major volcano eruption, as shown in the volcano webcam photograph above the maps.
Fast EELS analysis of metals in a blood cell attacked by the malaria parasite

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Paolo Longo, Ph.D., Gatan, Inc.

EELS data taken using a FEI F20 TEM/STEM microscope equipped with S-FEG emission gun and a fully loaded GIF Quantum® ER system.

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Fast EELS analysis of AlNiCo based metal alloy for magnetic purposes

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Paolo Longo, Ph.D., Gatan, Inc. Sample courtesy of Dr. Li Zhou at Ames Lab, Iowa

EELS data taken using a FEI F20 TEM/STEM microscope equipped with S-FEG emission gun and a fully loaded GIF Quantum® ER system.

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Voltage: 200 kV; data taken in STEM mode; EELS spectrum (300 – 2300 eV) exposure time: 8 ms; total exposure time:
EELS analysis of metal segregation across grain boundary in Yttria-stabilized Zirconia (YSZ) – investigating oxygen vacancies

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Paolo Longo, Ph.D., Gatan, Inc. Microscope and sample courtesy of Dr. Maria Varela at Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN

EELS data were acquired using a probe-corrected NION Ultrastem 200 TEM/STEM microscope equipped with C-FEG emission gun and a fully loaded Enfinium™ ER system.

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Fe speciation in geopolymers with Si/Al molar ratio of ∼2

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Journal of the European Ceramic Society

Perera, D. S.; Cashion, J. D.; Blackford, M. G.; Zhang, Z.; Vance, E. R.

The speciation of Fe was studied in metakaolin-based geopolymers to which Fe was added as ferric nitrate solution or freshly precipitated ferric hydroxide.
Atomic scale real-space mapping of holes in YBa2Cu3O6+δ

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Nature Communications

Gauquelin, N.; Hawthorn, D. G.; Sawatzky, G. A.; Liang, R. X.; Bonn, D. A.; Hardy, W. N.; Botton, G. A.

The high-temperature superconductor YBa2Cu3O6+δ consists of two main structural units—a bilayer of CuO2 planes that are central to superconductivity and a CuO2+δ chain layer.