objective aperture

The "objective aperture" is used for accepting a transmitted wave or one of diffracted waves to obtain a bright-field image or a dark-field image. The objective aperture is inserted into the back focal plane of the objective lens. The diameter of the objective aperture is 5 μm to 100 μm. It is noted that this aperture was inserted when obtaining a lattice image or a structure image, but recently, it has not been used. The reason for this is as follows. If computer processing is applied to the data which has a sharp cut due to the aperture, artifacts can appear in the processed image.

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