... series of post-specimen lenses. The objective lens produces the first image of the object and is, therefore, required to be the most perfect of the lenses. Depending on how the beams reaching the ... time one of the diffracted beams is chosen by means of an aperture that blocks the central beam and the other diffracted beams. The micrograph of alternating 40 A-wide films in the GaAs-Al,,,Ga,~,As ... energies where they strike the specimen target (anode). In the process, X-rays characteristic of atoms in the irradiated area are emitted. By an analysis of their energies, the atoms can be...