Definitive Support by Transmission Electron Microscopy, Electron Diffraction, and Electron Density Maps for the Formation of a BCC Lattice from Poly{N-[3,4,5-tris(n-dodecan-l-yloxy)benzoyl]ethyleneimine}

Author(s):  
Hu Duan ◽  
Steven D. Hudson ◽  
Goran Ungar ◽  
Marian N. Holerca ◽  
Virgil Percec
Author(s):  
George Guthrie ◽  
David Veblen

The nature of a geologic fluid can often be inferred from fluid-filled cavities (generally <100 μm in size) that are trapped during the growth of a mineral. A variety of techniques enables the fluids and daughter crystals (any solid precipitated from the trapped fluid) to be identified from cavities greater than a few micrometers. Many minerals, however, contain fluid inclusions smaller than a micrometer. Though inclusions this small are difficult or impossible to study by conventional techniques, they are ideally suited for study by analytical/ transmission electron microscopy (A/TEM) and electron diffraction. We have used this technique to study fluid inclusions and daughter crystals in diamond and feldspar.Inclusion-rich samples of diamond and feldspar were ion-thinned to electron transparency and examined with a Philips 420T electron microscope (120 keV) equipped with an EDAX beryllium-windowed energy dispersive spectrometer. Thin edges of the sample were perforated in areas that appeared in light microscopy to be populated densely with inclusions. In a few cases, the perforations were bound polygonal sides to which crystals (structurally and compositionally different from the host mineral) were attached (Figure 1).


Author(s):  
D. Loretto ◽  
J. M. Gibson ◽  
S. M. Yalisove

The silicides CoSi2 and NiSi2 are both metallic with the fee flourite structure and lattice constants which are close to silicon (1.2% and 0.6% smaller at room temperature respectively) Consequently epitaxial cobalt and nickel disilicide can be grown on silicon. If these layers are formed by ultra high vacuum (UHV) deposition (also known as molecular beam epitaxy or MBE) their thickness can be controlled to within a few monolayers. Such ultrathin metal/silicon systems have many potential applications: for example electronic devices based on ballistic transport. They also provide a model system to study the properties of heterointerfaces. In this work we will discuss results obtained using in situ and ex situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM).In situ TEM is suited to the study of MBE growth for several reasons. It offers high spatial resolution and the ability to penetrate many monolayers of material. This is in contrast to the techniques which are usually employed for in situ measurements in MBE, for example low energy electron diffraction (LEED) and reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED), which are both sensitive to only a few monolayers at the surface.


1983 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. I. Birjega ◽  
C. A. Constantin ◽  
M. Dinescu ◽  
I. Th. Florescu ◽  
I. N. Mihailescu ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTThe crystallization and oxidation processes of thin, free-standing (FS), sputtered Cr films under the action of cw CO2 laser irradiation were studied by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and transmission electron diffraction (TED). The crystallization is induced at power densities above 28.65 W cm−2, dwell time of 1 s, and the oxidation at power densities of 48.1 W cm−2 and longer dwell times.


2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 475-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karfa Traoré ◽  
Philippe Blanchart

Kaolinite mixed with calcite was sintered at low temperature (1100 °C; 5 °C/min). The successive phase transformations are metakaolinite to gehlenite and then anorthite, although the available phase diagram indicates a direct anorthite recrystallization. Transmission electron microscopy and electron diffraction studies of nanocrystallites revealed that the transformation path is favored by the structural similarities of phases. In particular, the pseudolayers of gehlenite have a major orientation relationship with the initial metakaolinite layers. The gehlenite axis, [001]G, is parallel to the metakaolinite axis, [001]A. This direct transition is favored by the existence of Si tetrahedral units and 4–fold–coordinated Al in both structures. Ca atoms, initially in the interlayer spacing of metakaolinite, remain in the interlayers of gehlenite. During the second transformation step, anorthite recrystallizes from gehlenite with axis [020]A parallel to [210]G. It is proposed that this orientation relationship is favored by the orientation and shape of Ca-atom channels through both structures, along [001]G and [100]A axes.


Nanoscale ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (22) ◽  
pp. 13803-13808 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnaud Mayence ◽  
Dong Wang ◽  
German Salazar-Alvarez ◽  
Peter Oleynikov ◽  
Lennart Bergström

Planar defects in Pd nanoparticle superlattices were revealed by a combination of real and reciprocal space transmission electron microscopy techniques. 3D electron diffraction tomography was extended to characterize mesoscale imperfections.


2011 ◽  
Vol 189-193 ◽  
pp. 1036-1039
Author(s):  
Jing Ling Ma ◽  
Jiu Ba Wen ◽  
Yan Fu Yan

The precipitates of Al-5Zn-0.02In-1Mg-0.05Ti-0.5Ce (wt %) anode alloy were studied by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray microanalysis, high resolution transmission electron microscopy and selected area electron diffraction analyses in the present work. The results show that the alloy mainly contains hexagonal structure MgZn2 and tetragonal structure Al2CeZn2 precipitates. From high resolution transmission electron microscopy and selected area electron diffraction, aluminium, Al2CeZn2 and MgZn2 phases have [0 1 -1]Al|| [1 -10]Al2CeZn2|| [-1 1 0 1]MgZn2orientation relation, and Al2CeZn2 and MgZn2 phases have the [0 2 -1]Al2CeZn2|| [0 1 -10]MgZn2orientation relation.


2010 ◽  
Vol 638-642 ◽  
pp. 3775-3780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seiichiro Ii ◽  
Chihiro Iwamoto ◽  
Shinobu Satonaka ◽  
Kazuyuki Hokamoto ◽  
Masahiro Fujita

Bonding interface in aluminum (Al) and silicon nitride (Si3N4) clad fabricated by explosive welding has been investigated by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The nanocrystalline region was clearly observed at the interface between Al and Si3N4. Electron diffraction pattern and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) measurements across the interface revealed that this nanocrystalline region consist of the only aluminum.


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