This book is the first to provide a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the electron optics involved in the production of intense monochromatic electron beams and the analysis of electrons scattered from a surface.

Autorentext

Since 1974 Director at the Institute of Interface Physics and Vacuum Research, Presently Institute of Thin Films and Interfaces 1986 Medard W. Welch Award of ther American Vacuum Society: "For the development of high-resolution electron energy-loss spectroscopy and its application to the characterization of surfaces and adsorbates" 1989 Regent's Professor, University of California, Irvine 1991 Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize for Outstanding Achievements in Solid State Physics (with G. Ertl und J.P. Toennies) 1993 Miller Research professor, University of California, Berkeley

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. The Computational Procedures.- 3. The Electron Optics of the Cylindrical Deflector.- 4. The Electron Optics of the Ideal Cylindrical Field with Space Charge.- 5. Electron Optics of Real Cylindrical Deflectors Loaded with High Current.- 6. Electron Emission Systems.- 7. Lens Systems.- 8. Comparison of Experiment and Simulation.- References.