On issuing special editions

Chizuka Ide

2

President's address

Hiroshi Hirano

3

Instrumentation: History

History of instrumentation

Susumu Maruse

4

Instrumentation: Development and Prospect

Transmission electron microscope

Keiji Yada, Yoshiyasu Harada, Shigeto Isakozawa

8

High voltage electron microscope

Hiroshi Shimoyama, Akio Takaoka, Toshikazu Honda, Isao Matsui

18

Scanning electron microscope

Takeo Ichinokawa, Mitsugu Sato, Seiichi Nakagawa, Hirotami Koike

22

Scanning probe microscope

Masashi Iwatsuki

28

Ion microscope (SIM & FIM)

Tohru Ishitani

30

Electron probe X-ray microanalyser

Ryuichi Shimizu

32

Energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer

Takahiko Oura

34

Electron spectrometers for EELS and EFTEM

Katsushige Tsuno

36

Image recording and processing device

Tetsuo Oikawa

38

LSI-process evaluation tools and E-beam tester based on SEM

Hiromu Fujioka, Shigeo Okayama

41

Observation and Analysis Method: Development and Prospect

Specimen preparation in material science

Fumio Nagata

44

Transmission electron diffraction

Michiyoshi Tanaka

46

Reflection electron diffraction

Ayahiko Ichimiya

49

High resolution electron microscopy

Shigeo Horiuchi, Yoshio Matsui

51

Electron holography

Tsukasa Hirayama

55

In situ electron microscope observation

Toru Imura, Hiroyasu Saka

57

Ultra-high vacuum electron microscopy

Katsumichi Yagi

60

Lorentz microscopy

Ken Harada

62

High resolution electron cryomicroscopy

Yoshinori Fujiyoshi

64

Control of specimen environment

Akira Ishikawa

66

Electron energy-loss spectroscopy

Hiroki Kurata

68

Energy filtered imaging

Vinchi Mizuhira

69

X-ray spectrometry

Zenji Horita

71

Cathodoluminescence microscopy

Takashi Sekiguchi

73

Image recording and analysis

Norio Baba, Daisuke Shindo

75

Special Lecture on 50th Anniversary of Japanese Society of Electron Microscopy

HRTEM and carbon materials

Sumio Iijima

78

Open Lectures on 50th Anniversary of Japanese Society of Electron Microscopy

Is it possible to image single atoms? Is it necessary?

Hatsujiro Hashimoto

79

Invitation to the beautiful micro cosmos

Keiichi Tanaka

84

The microscopic world unveiled by electron waves

Akira Tonomura

87