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The multislice method of calculating electron microscope images and diffraction patterns of thicker specimen is applied to several different specimen. First, some simple examples are worked through to help understand how to use the method and then some more complicated specimens are investigated to illustrate the method.

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Kirkland, E.J. (2020). Multislice Applications and Examples. In: Advanced Computing in Electron Microscopy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33260-0_7

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