Abstract
THE examination of crystals of silver halides in the electron microscope is of considerable interest in view of their importance in photography. So far, most research has been carried out with crystals from photographic emulsions having sizes of the order of 5µ or greater. However, crystals of such magnitude suffer from the disadvantage that they are sufficiently thick to be opaque to an electron beam and usually decompose rapidly in the beam1; this is particularly so with silver bromide, which has been most investigated. This has led largely to the use of replica techniques for their examination2. Particles of colloidal dimensions seem to have received very little attention, possibly owing to the relatively low magnification and resolving powers of earlier electron microscopes.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Levenson, G. I. P., and Tabor, J. H., Sci. and Indust. Phot., 23, 295 (1952). Berger, Z., Czechoslav. J. Phys., 4, 252 (1954).
Klein, E., Z. Elektrochem., 60, 998 (1956).
Ruska, E., and Wolff, O. Z., Z. wiss. Mikroskop., 62, 465 (1956).
Riecke, W. D., Proc. First Regional European Conference on Electron Microscopy, Stockholm, 98 (1956).
Ottewill, R. H., and Horne, R. W., Kolloid Z., 149, 122 (1956).
Hall, C. E., “Introduction to Electron Microscopy”, 297 (McGraw-Hill, 1953).
Strock, L. W., Z. phys. Chem., B, 25, 441 (1934).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
HORNE, R., OTTEWILL, R. Electron Microscope Studies on Colloidal Silver Iodide employing Cinematographic Techniques. Nature 180, 910–911 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180910a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/180910a0
- Springer Nature Limited