High-resolution electron microscopy image simulation on a Cray 1S/2300 computer.

R Spycher; P Stadelmann; P Buffat; M Flueli

doi:10.1002/jemt.1060100403

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High-resolution electron microscopy image simulation on a Cray 1S/2300 computer.

R Spycher·P Stadelmann·P Buffat·M Flueli

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High-resolution electron microscopy (HREM) image simulation by the multislice method has been implemented on a Cray 1S/2300 computer, allowing accurate full nonlinear image intensity calculations with possible sampling up to 2n x 2m samples of the transmission function (n + m = 20). As examples of applications, images have been obtained from an interface in PbTiO3 and of a small gold aggregate. HREM image simulation of perfect or faulted crystals can now be applied with reasonable computing times to problems involving a large number of atoms and thick or large supercells.

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R Spycher, P Stadelmann, P Buffat, M Flueli. 1988. High-resolution electron microscopy image simulation on a Cray 1S/2300 computer.. https://doi.org/10.1002/jemt.1060100403

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