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WE have found unexpected and finely detailed field-desorption patterns, which demonstrate that the yields of metal ions from the surfaces of specimens in the field-ion atom probe are a function of the crystallography and sometimes also of the materials.
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WAUGH, A., BOYES, E. & SOUTHON, M. Field-desorption microscopy and the atom probe. Nature 253, 342–343 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/253342a0
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