A practical method to detect and correct for lens distortion in the TEM.

A practical, offline method for experimental detection and correction for projector lens distortion in the transmission electron microscope (TEM) operating in high-resolution (HR) and selected area electron diffraction (SAED) modes is described. Typical TEM works show that, in the simplest case, the distortion transforms on the recording device, which would be a circle into an ellipse. The first goal of the procedure described here is to determine the elongation and orientation of the ellipse. The second goal is to correct for the distortion using an ordinary graphic program. The same experimental data set may also be used to determine the actual microscope magnification and the rotation between SAED patterns and HR images. The procedure may be helpful in several quantitative applications of electron diffraction and HR imaging, for instance while performing accurate lattice parameter determination, or while determining possible metrical deviations (cell edges and angles) from a given symmetry.

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