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Fig. 1.6 Scheme of the transmission electron microscope
Fig. 1.7 Image of the copper nanothread recorded by a transmission electron microscope and
atomic force microscope
the transmission microscope acts as a slide projector, which, instead of the light
beam and a slide, has an electron beam and the studied specimen.
The resolving power of the transmission microscope can be brought to a few
tenths of a nanometer. As an example, in Fig. 1.7 , the image obtained by transmis-
sion electron microscopy is compared with the image recorded by an atomic force
microscope (this and several subsequent figures exemplifying new physical
methods make use of the images that are easily found in various video galleries
that abound on the Internet; see, e.g., references 7-9 for Chapter 1). However, the
higher the resolution power of the transmission the microscope gets, the smaller
 
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