Challenge How to prepare electron transparent specimen(20-100 nm thick)without introducing artifacts? Providing adequate facilities are available,there is no real barrier to the preparation of good,thin- film specimens from any engineering material, and no excuse whatsoever for wasting time on the examination of a poor specimen in the microscope. -From David Brandon and Wayne D.Kaplan,Microstructural characterization 6 of materialsChallenge Providing adequate facilities are available, there is no real barrier to the preparation of good, thinfilm specimens from any engineering material, and no excuse whatsoever for wasting time on the examination of a poor specimen in the microscope. -From David Brandon and Wayne D. Kaplan, Microstructural characterization of materials 6 How to prepare electron transparent specimen (20-100 nm thick) without introducing artifacts?