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Incoherent Imaging of Materials Structure and Composition by Z-Contrast Stem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

S. J. Pennycook ,
D. E. Jesson  and
M. F. Chisholm
S. J. Pennycook
Affiliation:
Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6024
D. E. Jesson
Affiliation:
Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6024
M. F. Chisholm
Affiliation:
Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6024
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Abstract

It is shown how the use of a high angle annular detector in a STEM provides images which show strong compositional sensitivity and almost perfect incoherent characteristics. No contrast reversals occur with defocus or sample thickness and the contribution of an atomic string is insensitive to the distribution and strength of neighboring strings. The image is best described in real space as a simple convolution of the incident probe intensity profile with an object function sharply peaked at the atomic strings having a strength dependent on composition. How the incoherent characteristics arise is described using a Bloch wave approach and examples are shown of interfaces in semiconductor and superconductor materials.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 183: Symposium E – High Resolution Electron Microscopy of Defects in Materials , 1990 , 211
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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