Tilt series Z-contrast STEM images of a Ge nanowire after alignment into a rotation projection, taken using Hummingbird Scientific’s Tomography holder. The nano-wire is approximately 150nm in diameter and it shows positioning of a gold nano-particle on the wire.

Reference: J. Wu, S. Padalkar, S. Xie, E.R. Hemesath, J. Cheng, G. Liu, A. Yan, J.G. Connell, E. Nakazawa, X. Zhang, L.J. Lauhon, V.P. Dravid. “Electron Tomography of Au-Catalyzed Semiconductor Nanowires,” Journal of Physical Chemistry C 117:2 (2013) pp.1059‒1063. Abstract

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