A new approach to study bonding anisotropy with EELS

A novel method to study the anisotropy of electron scattering is presented. The technique makes use of the two-dimensional capabilities of energy filters in transmission electron microscopes to study the energy-filtered scattering patterns obtained at different energy losses near ionization edges. The technique is demonstrated for the C–K edge in pyrolitic graphite at energy losses corresponding to the continuum background prior to the C–K …