High Energy Electron Diffraction and Microscopy

L.-M. Peng, Yangtze Professor of Nanoscale Science and Technology at Peking University; elected Fellow of Institute of Physics in 2000 and awarded the Qiu Shi Prize for Outstanding Young Scientist in Physics in 1998. Currently serves as an Associate Editor of the "International Journal of Nanoscience", a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of Ultramicroscopy and a member of the Editorial Board, MICRON.S.L.Dudarev, Principal Scientist at EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association and Senior Research Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. Received DSc in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1994. Held visiting positions at Melbourne University, Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and Hong-Kong Polytechnic University. Currently involved in the development of a comprehensive programme on mathematical modelling of fusion materials.M.J.Whelan, FRS, Emeritus Professor of Microscopy of Materials in the Department of Materials, Oxford University. Emeritus Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.

• 1. Basic concepts ; 2. Kinematic theory ; 3. Dynamical theory I - general theory ; 4. Dynamical theory II - THEED ; 5. Reflection high energy electron diffraction ; 6. Resonance effects in diffraction ; 7. Diffuse and inelastic scattering - elementary processes ; 8. Diffuse and inelastric scattering - multiple scattering effects ; 9. Crystal and diffraction symmetry ; 10. Perturbation methods and tensor theory ; 11. Digital electron microscopy ; 12. Image formation and the retrieval of the wave function ; 13. The atomic scattering factor and the optical potential ; 14. Debye-Waller factors ; 15. Some useful mathematical relations ; 16. Green's functions ; 17. FORTRAN listing of RHEED routines ; 18. Parameterization of the atomic scattering factor

Although the book is mathematically based, the authors take care to provide a physical interpretation whenever possible, for example by the use of diagrams. The book is hardbound in Oxford blue and looks like the scholarly reference that it is. The serious electron microscopist will find it a sound investment.