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Commission on Electron Crystallography

Additional Information on Electron Crystallography

A list of books, special issues of journals, tables:

  • Electron Diffraction in the TEM. P.E.Champness. ISBN 1859961479. Bios 2001 (Royal Micros Soc.) Oxford UK
  • Analytical electron microscopy for materials science. D. Shindo, T. Oikawa. Springer (2002). Excellent, up to date, practical. (ELS, EDX, CBED, Alchemi, Sample prep, holography etc.)
  • High resolution electron microscopy and related techniques. P. Buseck, J.Cowley and L. Eyring, Eds. Oxford Univ. Press (1989). Comprehensive overview.
  • Electron Backscattering Diffraction in Materials Science. A. J. Schwartz, M. Kumar and B. L. Adams (Eds) Plenum (New York, 2000)
  • Atlas of Backscattering Kikuchi Diffraction Patterns. D. J. Dingley, K. Z. Baba-Kishi and V. Randle. IOP (Bristol, 1995)
  • Introduction to Texture Analysis. V. Randle and O. Engler. Gordon and Breach (Amsterdam 2000)
  • Texture and Anisotropy. U. F. Kocks, C. N. Tomé and H.-R. Wenk. Cambridge (Cambridge 1998)
  • Elastic and Inelastic Scattering in Electron Diffraction and Imaging. Z. L. Wang. Plenum (New York 1995)
  • Introduction to Analytical Electron Microscopy. J. J. Hren, J. I. Goldstein and D. C Joy. (Eds) Plenum (New York 1979)
  • Principles of Analytical Electron Microscopy. D. C. Joy, A. D. Romig and J. I. Goldstein. (Eds) Pleum (New York 1986)
  • Convergent Beam Electron Diffraction of Alloy Phases. J. Mansfield (Ed.) Adam Hilger (Bristol 1984)
  • Large-angle convergent beam electron diffraction. J. P. Morniroli. (Society of French Microscopists, Paris) 2002. In english. ISBN 2-901483-05-4
  • Diffraction Physics. J. M. Cowley. North-Holland. 3rd Edition. 1990
  • Advanced computing in electron microscopy. E. J. Kirkland. Plenum. New York. 1998
  • Transmission Electron Microscopy and Diffractometry of Materials. B. Fultz and J. Howe. Springer. 2001. Excellent coverage of theory and worked examples.
  • Fundamentals of HREM. S. Horiuchi. North Holland. 1994.
  • Structural Electron Crystallography. D. L. Dorset, Plenum/Kluwer. 1997. Mainly organics.
  • Transmission electron microscopy: A textbook for materials science. D. B. Williams and C. B. Carter. Plenum Press. 1996. Pedagogically sound introductory text.
    See http://www1.cems.umn.edu/research/carter/book.html
  • High Resolution Electron Microscopy. J. C. H. Spence. Oxford Univ. Press. 2003. (3rd Edn) How to do HREM, and theory.
  • Electron energy loss spectroscopy in the electron microscope. R. F. Egerton. Plenum. New York. 2nd edition 1996
  • Convergent beam electron diffraction IV. M. Tanaka, M. Terauchi, K. Tsuda, K. Saitoh. JEOL Ltd. Tokyo. and earlier volumes. Superb collection of CBED patterns.
  • Electron microdiffraction. J. Spence and J. M. Zuo. (Plenum, 1992). How to do quantitative CBED. Worked example of finding space-group from CBED patterns.
  • Electron Diffraction Techniques. Vols 1 and 2. Oxford/IUCr Press. J. Cowley, ed. 1993
  • High resolution electron microscopy for materials science. D. Shindo, K. Hiraga. Springer. 1998.
    Beautiful collection of HREM images and examples of their analysis.
  • Electron Microscopy of thin crystals. P. B. Hirsch et al. Krieger. New York. 1977
    Classic text with many worked examples.
  • Electron-diffraction Analysis of Clay Mineral Structures. B. B. Zvyagin. Plenum. 1967
  • Electron Diffraction Structure Analysis. B. K. Vainshtein. Pergamon. 1964
  • Intro. to Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy. R. J. Keyse, A. J. Garratt-Reed, P. J. Goodhew and G. W. Lorimer. (BIOS Scientific, Publishers, Royal Micros. Soc., 1998)
  • Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy. Rik Brydson. (BIOS Scientific Publishers, Royal Micros. Soc., 2001)
  • Transmission Electron Microscopy. 4th ed. L. Reimer. (Springer-Verlag 1997).
    Excellent broad coverage with all the basic physics, including radiation damage.
  • Electron Holography. A. Tonomura. (Springer-Verlag, 1999)
  • Introduction to electron holography. E. Voelkl, Ed. (1998). Plenum.
  • Practical Electron Microscopy in Materials Science. J. W. Edington. (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1976)
  • Electron beam analysis of materials. M. Loretto. Chapman and Hall.1984. Excellent.
  • Electron microscopy in heterogeneous catalysis. P. Gai and E. Boyes. Inst Phys. (2003).
  • Interpretation of electron diffraction patterns. Andrews, K., Dyson, D., Keown, S. (1971). Plenum New York.
  • Crystallography and crystal defects. Reprinted by Techbooks, 4012 Williamsburg Court, Fairfax, Virginia, USA 22032.
  • JCPDS-ICDD Powder diffraction file. http://www.icdd.com/. Identify crystalline phases from their diffraction data.
  • Special issue of Zeitschrift für Kristallographie on electron crystallography. 2003/4. U. Kolb.
  • Journal of Microscopy and Microanalysis (mid 2003) Special issue on Quantitative Electron Diffraction. J. C. H. Spence, editor.
  • Electron Microscopy and Analysis, 3rd Edition (2001). P. J. Goodhew, F. J. Humphreys and R. Beanland. Taylor & Francis, London, ISBN 0-7484-0968-8
  • Characterisation of Radiation Damage by Transmission Electron Microscopy. (2000) M. L. Jenkins and M. A. Kirk, http://bookmark.iop.org/bookpge.htm?ID=94Pn8IaWGwQsSz4pC1GCzj3w&book=885h
  • Introduction to Conventional Transmission Electron Microscopy. Prof. Marc De Graef: http://titles.cambridge.org/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521620066 (Paper Back) http://titles.cambridge.org/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521629950 (Hard Cover)
  • HOW TO INDEX A TRANSMISSION ELECTRON DIFFRACTION PATTERN See Fultz and Howe book Sections 1.1, 5.3.2 and 6.1. See Champness and Loretto books
  • HOW TO DETERMINE THE SPACE GROUP OF A NANOCRYSTAL BY CBED. See Fultz and Howe book Section 6.5
  • USING A TEM FOR MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION AND SEEING ATOMS. See Fultz and Howe book pages 84-89, 155, 566-576

More details, including ISBN numbers and out-of-print books can be found at specialist booksellers on the web.