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The temperature of a thin metal foil illuminated by the high intensity electron beam of the modern microscope may at the centre of illumination reach a temperature above that of the melting point of iron. An attempt has been made to measure and calculate the temperature distribution for any given metal under various illumination conditions and to determine also the stress fields produced in the foil by such temperature distribution.
Gale et al. (Wed,) studied this question.