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No doubt, light microscopy still plays the leading role in the qualitative and quantitative microscopical examination of metals. The introduction of quantitative techniques like manual and automated image analysis, microscope photometric reflectance measurements, analysis of elliptically polarized light by polarizing microscopy, interference microscopy and microhardness testing, has significantly contributed to the support of this role. In contrast to earlier expectations, scanning electron microscopy [2.1] has turned out to be much more complementary than competitive. Its higher lateral resolution and the various analytical information is restricted to object structures at the object surface or at very small distances below that surface.
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Hoppe, M., Thaer, A. (1986). Scanning Acoustic Microscopy. In: Gonser, U. (eds) Microscopic Methods in Metals. Topics in Current Physics, vol 40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46571-0_2
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