Electrostatic lens systems /

This work aims to enable readers to design lens systems having useful characteristics. The text covers the theory of the motion of charged particles in electrostatic fields and describes several methods for the calculation of the potential and field distribution for various electrode geometries.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heddle, D. W. O. (Douglas W. O.)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Bristol ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics Pub., ©2000.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. The optics of simple lenses
  • 1.1 Analogies between particle and photon optics
  • 1.2 The cardinal points of a lens
  • 2. The motion of charged particles in an electrostatic field
  • 2.1 The equation of paraxial motion
  • 2.2 Some general results
  • 3. The determination of the axial potential
  • 3.1 Analytic expressions
  • 3.2 The boundary element method
  • 3.3 The finite element method
  • 3.4 The finite difference method: relaxation
  • 3.5 The nine point method applied to cylindrical geometry
  • 3.6 Bessel function expansions
  • 4. The optics of simple lens systems
  • 4.1 Aperture lenses
  • 4.2 Cylinder lenses
  • 4.3 The calculation of ray paths
  • 4.4 Real and asymptotic cardinal points
  • 4.5 Windows and pupils
  • 4.6 Multi-element lenses
  • 5. Aberrations
  • 5.1 Spherical aberration
  • 5.2 Chromatic aberration
  • 5.3 Off-axis aberrations
  • 5.4 Interrelations of the spherical aberration coefficients
  • 5.5 The determination of aberration coefficients
  • 6. The LENSYS program
  • 6.1 The programs on the disk
  • 6.2 The screen display
  • 6.3 The Set Options option
  • 6.4 The Lens Data option
  • 6.5 The Imaging option
  • 6.6 The Print/Save option
  • 6.7 The auxiliary programs
  • Appendix: Technical aspects of LENSYS
  • References
  • Last Page.