Three customers of Nanofactory Instruments contribute to one of the featured articles. Specialized specimen holders and TEM techniques for nanomaterials and nanodevices are presented, including a review of the making and electrical characterization of in situ devices and magnetic phenomena.
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Dislocation formation and propagation in silver nanoparticles are studied by compressing a single nanoparticle 35 nm in diameter with the TEM-NanoIndenter from Nanofactory Instruments.
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See also:
"In-situ TEM Nano-Indentation of Individual Single-Crystal Nanoparticles", Microsc. Microanal. 13 (Suppl 2), 2007, C.E. Carlton,O. Lourie and P. J. Ferreira
http://journals.cambridge.org/
Link to the cover, showing high resolution imaging of coalescing Pt particles and individual Pt atoms:
http://www.mrs.org/s_mrs/doc.asp?CID=13583&DID=207952
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