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aperture diameter

aperture diameter

A diameter of a lens aperture. The condense-aperture diameter determines the divergence angle of an electron beam. The objective-aperture diameter determines scattering angle of electrons exiting from a specimen (the number of diffracted beams used for forming a TEM image). The selector-aperture diameter determines an area from which a diffraction pattern is obtained.

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