Advantages of TEMs over SEMs Advantages of SEMs over TEMs

A TEM might be used in preference to an SEM

because:
Transmission Electron Microscopes can
produce images that have
o Higher Magnification and
o Greater Resolution
than images produced by Scanning
Electron Microscopes.
An SEM might be used in preference to a TEM
because:
Scanning Electron Microscopes produce
threedimensional !"#$ images %hile
Transmission Electron Microscopes only
produce flat !&#$ images.
"# images provide more information
about the shape of features and also about
the location of features relative to each
other. 'n some situations this information
is very useful and more important than the
higher resolution and magnification that a
TEM %ould provide.