T. Levesque's scientific contributions

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... Carbon contamination can be effectively avoided or even entirely removed by plasma cleaning using oxygen radicals. These react with the carbohydrates to form CO, CO 2 and H 2 O, which are then removed by the vacuum pumps [21]. Williams and Carter [38] point out that plasma cleaning should be done prior to the TEM or SEM experiment but Krakauer and Seidman [19] demonstrate that these layers can also be successfully removed from APT tips after the TEM experiment. ...