Learn About TEM
I’m working on some blogs to ease people into TEM with a light narrative, but for more detail you can start with the resources on this page. In no particular order:
- Williams and Carter is the classic textbook every student is told to read, and contains an accessible and often entertaining overview of the field. The current edition is dated when it comes to topics like electron cameras (Transmission Electron Microscopy: A Textbook for Materials Science, second edition, ISBN: 978-0-387-76500-6).
- The Springer Handbook of Microscopy is an alternative textbook. It covers electron microscopy more broadly than Williams and Carter, and it’s always good to read about the same topics from multiple angles (ISBN: 978-3-030-00068-4).
- Electron Energy Loss in the Electron Microscope by Egerton is a thorough treatment of EELS, in deep mathematical detail (ISBN: 978-1-4419-9583-4)
- Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy by Brydson is a much shorter overview of EELS that is a good primer for learning more (ISBN: 9781003076858).
- Electron Crystallography: Electron Microscopy and Electron Nanodiffraction by Zou, Hovmöller and Oleynikov contains an introduction to electron diffraction, although the practical methods for electron crystallography are out of date. It also contains an overview of crystallography and TEM theory (ISBN: 978-0-19-958020-0).
- Optics by Hecht is an undergraduate optics textbook ideal for brushing up on fundamentals (ISBN: 978-1-292-09693-3).
- If you’re tired of textbooks Rodenburg.org contains a concise series of blogs describing practical TEM and STEM alignment principles, although it’s a little dated.
- SuperSTEM hosts some excellent material on the Learn pages, largely to do with aberration-corrected STEM.
- David Mitchell’s DigitalMicrograph Scripting Website contains all kinds of scripts for TEM control and data processing, and is a good way to find examples of DM-script syntax.
- MyScope from Microscopy Australia contains good overviews on many TEM topics.
- The Glossary of TEM Terms from JEOL contains very brief summaries of many TEM topics.
List updated: 13-04-25