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Automated Nanocrystal Orientation and Phase Mapping in the Transmission Electron Microscope on the Basis of Precession Electron Diffraction View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by PDXScholar Portland State University PDXScholar Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations Physics 3-2010 Automated Nanocrystal Orientation and Phase Mapping in the Transmission Electron Microscope on the Basis of Precession Electron Diffraction Edgar F. Rauch SIMAP/GPM2 Laboratory Joaquin Portillo NanoMEGAS SPRL Stavros Nicolopoulos NanoMEGAS SPRL Daniel Bultreys NanoMEGAS SPRL Sergei Rouvimov SERVEIS Cientificotecnics See next page for additional authors Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/phy_fac Part of the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Commons, and the Physics Commons Citation Details Rauch, Edgar F., et al. "Automated nanocrystal orientation and phase mapping in the transmission electron microscope on the basis of precession electron diffraction." Zeitschrift für Kristallographie International journal for structural, physical, and chemical aspects of crystalline materials 225.2-3 (2010): 103-109. This Article is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors Edgar F. Rauch, Joaquin Portillo, Stavros Nicolopoulos, Daniel Bultreys, Sergei Rouvimov, and Peter Moeck This article is available at PDXScholar: http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/phy_fac/225 Z. Kristallogr. 225 (2010) 103–109 / DOI 10.1524/zkri.2010.1205 103 # by Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Mu¨nchen Automated nanocrystal orientation and phase mapping in the transmission electron microscope on the basis of precession electron diffraction Edgar F. Rauch*,I, Joaquin PortilloII, III, Stavros NicolopoulosII, Daniel BultreysII, Sergei RouvimovIII and Peter MoeckIV I SIMAP/GPM2 laboratory, CNRS-Grenoble INP, BP 46 101 rue de la Physique, 38402 Saint Martin d’He`res, France II NanoMEGAS SPRL, Boulevard Edmond Machterns No 79, Saint Jean Molenbeek, Brussels, 1080, Belgium III SERVEIS Cientificotecnics, University of Barcelona, Spain IV Nano-Crystallography Group, Department of Physics, Portland State University, and Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute Portland, OR 97207-0751, USA Received July 4, 2009; accepted November 13, 2009 Nanocrystals / Orientation mapping / Structural mapping / On the other hand, there is a growing need to charac- Structural fingerprinting / Structural databases / terize, map and fingerprint nanocrystalline materials at Precession electron diffraction / higher resolutions as obtainable in a transmission electron Transmission electron microscopy microscope (TEM). Consequently, the extension of orien- tation mapping facilities to transmission electron micro- Abstract. An automated technique for the mapping of na- scopes (TEM) was attempted several times. Both Kikuchi nocrystal phases and orientations in a transmission electron lines [1–3] and Bragg diffraction (spot) patterns [2, 4] microscope is described. It is primarily based on the pro- were used to extract the orientation and phase information jected reciprocal lattice geometry that is extracted from elec- from the patterns. Such techniques have become more fea- tron diffraction spot patterns. Precession electron diffraction sible due to the availability of focused ion beam (FIB) patterns are especially useful for this purpose. The required microscopes for the preparation of sufficiently thin foils. hardware allows for a scanning-precession movement of the Nevertheless, these techniques suffer from difficulties to primary electron beam on the crystalline sample and can be analyze diffraction patterns that are sensitive to dynamical interfaced to any older or newer mid-voltage transmission effects related for example to crystal thickness changes. electron microscope (TEM). Experimentally obtained crys- Moreover, the complexity of the patterns that are collected tal phase and orientation maps are shown for a variety of when the electron beam is crossing overlapping grains samples. Comprehensive commercial and open-access crys- leads to frequent mis-indexings. tallographic databases may be used in support of the nano- There is an alternative TEM technique that works on crystal phase identification process and are briefly men- the basis of approximately 65,000 reconstructed diffraction tioned. spot patterns per mapped sample area [5, 6]. These pat- terns are reconstructed by software from some 5,000 auto- matically collected conical dark field images. Only the Introduction projected reciprocal lattice geometry of the reconstructed diffraction patterns is utilized. The technique is commonly The electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) attachment for referred to as “Automated Crystallography for the TEM” scanning electron microscopes (SEM) has gained popular- [7]. Further improvements of this technique that include ity over the last decade as it provides an effective tool for utilizing the intensity of the reconstructed diffraction pat- the characterization of bulk crystalline materials. EBSD ters in the two-beam dynamical diffraction limit and a crystal phase and orientation maps with a resolution of Blackman correction have been proposed recently [8]. typically 50 nm when a field emission gun is used have It was proposed previously to use a template matching been recorded mainly from metals and alloys. The techni- algorithm to compare the acquired diffraction patterns to que is based on precise measurements of backscattered pre-calculated templates [9]. This permits the crystal ori- Kikuchi line patterns. The quality of these patterns is entation and phase to be derived form the best fit among known to be sensitive to the surface roughness so that a complete set of possibilities. Such an approach has efficient mapping requires well polished samples. Another proved able of deconvoluting superimposed diffraction limitation of the Kikuchi lines is related to their disappear- patterns that were recorded from grain or twin boundaries ance with increasing strain and internal stresses. [10]. The efficiency of template matching for orientation indexing was recognized by other groups that are dealing * Correspondence author either with electron [8] or Laue X-ray [11] diffraction pat- (e-mail: [email protected]) terns. Brought to you by | Portland State University Authenticated Download Date | 9/23/15 12:53 AM 104 E. F. Rauch, J. Portillo, S. Nicolopoulos et al. Fig. 1. Automatic TEM nanocrystal phase and orientation mapping. While the area of interest is scanned and precessed (a), ED spot patterns are collected (b) with an external CCD camera that is mounted in front of the TEM screen (arrow in c). The scanning of the primary electron beam is combined with its precession movements, both of which are controlled by the dedi- cated digital “DigiSTAR” unit (d). The array of spots in (a) are supposed to illus- trate the scanning procedure (Note that this array is not to scale as typical scan step sizes are in the tens of nanometer). In this paper, we will describe both this method and a scope. The beam scanning and precessing is controlled by newly developed tool for the automatic mapping of crys- a dedicated external device, i.e. the precession electron tals orientations and phases [9, 10, 12]. Our method may diffraction device “DigiSTAR” [13], via adequate connec- be loosely speaking referred to as a “higher resolution tions to the deflector coils control boards. A TEM retro- EBSD-TEM equivalent” or better as precession-transmis- fitted with a precession device, thus, does not need to pos- sion-diffraction based “Orientation Imaging Microscopy”. sess scanning facilities itself. While template matching is a relatively simple and fast Any slow-scan CCD camera that is mounted on an ex- procedure, it cannot deal with the so-called 180 ambigu- ternal 35 mm standard port or on-axis internally can be ity that pertains to some particular zone axes. The pro- used for the collection of precession ED spot patterns with blem results from the absence of reflections pertaining to a speed of about 10 to 30 frames per seconds. An external higher order Laue zone in typical diffraction spot patterns. “fast optical” CCD with only 8 bit dynamical range and The missing reflections may be activated when the inci- 750 Â 500 pixels image size that is mounted in front of dent beam is tilted. Consequently, precessing the trans- the TEM screen can be used advantageously because of its mitted beam with an angle of a few tens of a degree up to much higher collection speed. Using the camera binning a few degrees is expected to decrease the ambiguity. The facility, up to 180 ED spot patterns can be recorded per benefits of such precession movements of the primary second with the current equipment. During the scanning electron beam on the sample and a proper de-scanning and precessing of the primary electron beam, thousands of below the sample on the reliability of the orientation meas- ED spot patterns are recorded and stored in a computer’s urement will be demonstrated. memory. In order to proceed with nanocrystal orientation and phase identification (or utilize it for more advanced1 struc- Materials and methods 1 A novel procedure for structural fingerprinting of nanocrystals Structural information about crystalline materials is con- on the basis of structural data that can be extracted from precession tained in their electron diffraction
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