field emission microscope
Electronics now chiefly historical
noun
A type of electron microscope in which field emission is utilized to form an enlarged image of the emitting surface on a fluorescent screen.
- Invented by E. W. Müller (1911–77), German-born physicist, in 1936. Müller also invented the field ion microscope and the atom probe..
Origin
1940s.
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