WITHDRAWN: Formation and atomic structures of B N (n=24–60) clusters studied by mass spectrometry, high-resolution electron microscopy and molecular orbital calculation

Author(s):  
Takeo Oku ◽  
Atsushi Nishiwaki ◽  
Ichihito Narita
1990 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Catana ◽  
P.E. Schmid

ABSTRACTHigh Resolution Electron Microscopy (HREM) and image calculations are combined to study microstructural changes related to the CoSi/Si-CoSi/CoSi2/Si-CoSi2/Si transformations. The samples are prepared by UHV e-beam evaporation of Co layers (2 nm) followed by annealing at 300°C or 400°C. Cross-sectional observations at an atomic scale show that the silicidation of Co at the lower temperature yields epitaxial CoSi/Si domains such that [111]Si // [111]CoSi and <110>Si // <112>CoSi. At about 400°C CoSi2 nucleates at the CoSi/Si interface. During the early stages of this chemical reaction, an epitaxial CoSi/CoSi2/Si system is observed. The predominant orientation is such that (021) CoSi planes are parallel to (220) CoSi2 planes, the CoSi2/Si interface being of type B. The growth of CoSi2 is shown to proceed at the expense of both CoSi and Si.


2000 ◽  
Vol 609 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Qin ◽  
D. G. Ast ◽  
T. I. Kamins

ABSTRACTThe microstructure of polysilicon and Si0.69Ge0.31 thin films, grown by chemical-vapordeposition (CVD) on oxidized silicon wafers covered with a very thin polysilicon seed layer, was investigated using high-resolution electron microscopy (HREM). The plan-view HREM images showed that polysilicon films contained less substructure inside grains and had fewer multiple twins and more extended twin bands than Si0.69Ge0.31. On the other hand, only SiGe contained multiple twins with five-fold symmetry. The atomic model of the second-order symmetric twin boundary proposed for Si and based on the insertion of five-member and seven-membered rings was found to describe the atomic structures of second-order symmetric twin boundaries in Si0.69Ge0.31 as well. Within the accuracy of HREM, the repeat unit of the boundary was the same in Si0.69Ge0.31 and Si.


1986 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Krakow ◽  
David A. Smith

A number of grain boudary structures prepared from evaporated Au thin films have been investigated using very high-resolution electron microscopy. Particular emphasis has been placed on analyzing [110] tilt boundaries with both low- and high-angle misorientations. Observations of the atomic positions at dislocation cores and close-packed polyhedral shapes at the interface have been made. Symmetric boundaries have been observed as well as interfacial regions where the grain orientations deviate from perfect coincidence and hence the boundary structure exhibits perturbations to the regular polyhedron stacking. The special case of “plane coalescence” has also been observed, as well as the boundary splitting near a hole. The fabrication and observation of a generalized boundary, which cannot be classified as a tilt structure, will also be demonstrated.


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