Phase Formation and Hydrogen Ordering in Yttrium-Hydrogen System

2009 ◽  
Vol 1216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ke Wang ◽  
Jason Hattrick-Simpers ◽  
Leonid Bendersky

AbstractPhase transformations in epitaxial yttrium films grown on (0001)Ti//(0001)Al2O3 Ti-buffered sapphire substrates and hydrogenated for 10 min were characterized using transmission electron microscopy. After hydrogen charging, dense twin lamellae form during α(Y(H))-to-β(YH2) phase transition with twin boundaries predominately parallel to the interface between Y and a substrate. High densities of Shockley partial dislocations are present at the twin boundaries, their glides during phase transformation are responsible for the formation of twin lamellae. Electron diffraction from YH2 phase shows superlattice reflections, which suggests a new type of ordering on octahedral interstitial sites.

1987 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Pérez ◽  
J. G. Pérez-Ramírez ◽  
M. Avalos ◽  
J. Reyes ◽  
L. Martinez ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTOptical microscopy and transmission electron microscopy show that most of the crystalline grains in Y1Ba2Cu3O7−x superconducting specimens have large number of twins. These bands of different image contrast have similar microdiffraction patterns. However the diffraction conditions are different and correspond to different tilts of the crystalline grains along one of the zone axis. HREM images of these twin boundaries indicate that the boundary area has appreciable dimensions and both matrix and twin crystals show the existence of a superstructure with double of the common periodicity obtained under [001] diffraction conditions.


1991 ◽  
Vol 238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ohnishi N ◽  
Sankararaman M ◽  
Sato H

ABSTRACTA new type of twin structure is found to exist quite commonly in the Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ superconductor obtained by annealing melt quenched amorphous precursors. From transmission electron microscopy and electron diffraction, the twinning plane is determined to be the (015) plane (disregarding the period of incommensurate modulation in the b-direction). Further, the twin boundary is found to be coherent with a specific coincidence condition. The analysis of the morphologies indicates that the twins nucleate at the early stages of the grain growth in these materials.


2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 222-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fusen Yuan ◽  
Chengze Liu ◽  
Fuzhou Han ◽  
Yingdong Zhang ◽  
Ali Muhammad ◽  
...  

The C14 (hexagonal close-packed) and C15 (face-centred cubic) close-packed structures are found to coexist in an individual Zr(Fe,Cr)2 Laves structured nanophase in Zircaloy-4 alloy with shear deformation. The orientation relationship between C15 and C14 is [\bar 1 10]C15//[11\bar 20]C14 and (\bar 111)C15//(0001)C14. The stacking faults (SFs) in the C15 structure and the high-density SFs between C15 and C14 have been identified using transmission electron microscopy, which showed they originated on close-packed planes by emission of 1/6〈\bar 2 \bar 1\bar 1〉 Shockley partial dislocations from the phase boundary. Furthermore, the stress-induced C14→C15 phase transformation took place during the shear deformation.


Author(s):  
D. L. Callahan ◽  
Z. Ball ◽  
H. M. Phillips ◽  
R. Sauerbrey

Ultraviolet laser-irradiation can be used to induce an insulator-to-conductor phase transition on the surface of Kapton polyimide. Such structures have potential applications as resistors or conductors for VLSI applications as well as general utility electrodes. Although the percolative nature of the phase transformation has been well-established, there has been little definitive work on the mechanism or extent of transformation. In particular, there has been considerable debate about whether or not the transition is primarily photothermal in nature, as we propose, or photochemical. In this study, cross-sectional optical microscopy and transmission electron microscopy are utilized to characterize the nature of microstructural changes associated with the laser-induced pyrolysis of polyimide.Laser-modified polyimide samples initially 12 μm thick were prepared in cross-section by standard ultramicrotomy. Resulting contraction in parallel to the film surface has led to distortions in apparent magnification. The scale bars shown are calibrated for the direction normal to the film surface only.


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.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 1581-1588 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. I. Sadovnikov ◽  
E. Yu. Gerasimov

For the first time, the α-Ag2S (acanthite)–β-Ag2S (argentite) phase transition in a single silver sulfide nanoparticles has been observed in situ using a high-resolution transmission electron microscopy method in real time.


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