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In a transmission electron microscope with phase contrast imaging, the illumination of the object to be imaged takes place with an annular illuminating aperture. An annular phase-shifting element with a central aperture is arranged in a plane Fourier transformed with respect to the object plane. The annular phase-shifting element confers a phase shift of pi/2 on a null beam, while the radiation of higher diffraction orders diffracted at the object in the direction of the optical axis passes through the central aperture of the annular phase-shifting element and consequently is not affected, or only slightly affected, by the phase-shifting element. The annular illuminating aperture is preferably produced sequentially in time by a deflecting system, which produces a beam tilt in a plane conjugate to the object plane.
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