Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, Volume 147

This volume contains two substantial contributions, on the use of the cathodo-luminescent signal in scanning electron microscopy and on fuzzy transforms.

The first chapter fills a serious gap in the literature for, although cathodo-luminescence is discussed in all the books on scanning electron microscopy, there has been no recent account of the physics of the phenomenon and of the associated instrumentation. C.M. Parish and P.E. Russell take us through the basic physics and explain what types of signal can be captured, after which they present the types of accessory needed for spectral imaging and pulsed operation, as well as the more standard detectors.

In the second contribution, I. Perfilieva, to whom we owe many original ideas in fuzzy set theory, discusses the difficult topic of fuzzy transforms. After explaining the basic mathematical tools (semirings and semimodules), she describes semilinear spaces and introduces the required function spaces. This brings us to the real subject of the review, fuzzy transforms. These are analyzed in great detail, and the paper concludes with a good variety of applications