Atomic-resolution three-dimensional imaging of germanium self-interstitials near a surface: Aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy
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D. Alloyeau,1,*,† B. Freitag,2 S. Dag,3 Lin W. Wang,3 and C. Kisielowski1,*,‡ 1National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA 2FEI Company, Eindhoven, Building AAE, Achtseweg Noord 5, P.O. Box 80066, 5600 KA Eindhoven, The Netherlands 3Scientific Computing Group, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA Received 10 April 2009; revised manuscript received 27 May 2009; published 27 July 2009
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