title: Room design for high-performance electron microscopy.
abstract: Aberration correctors correct aberrations, not instabilities. Rather, as spatial resolution improves, a microscope's sensitivity to room environment becomes more noticeable, not less. Room design is now an essential part of the microscope installation process. Previously ignorable annoyances like computer fans, desk lamps and that chiller in the service corridor now may become the limiting factors in the microscopes performance. We discuss methods to quantitatively characterize the instrument's response to magnetic, mechanical, acoustical and thermal disturbances and thus predict the limits that the environment places on imaging and spectroscopy.
authors.affiliation: School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. dm24@cornell.edu
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Muller
authors.forename: Earl J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Kirkland
authors.forename: Malcolm G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: John L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Grazul
authors.forename: Lena
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fitting
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Weyland