Enhanced Compositional Contrast in Imaging of Nanoprecipitates Buried in a Defective Crystal Using a Conventional TEM
- 31 January 2003
- journal article
- instrumentation and-technique
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Microscopy and Microanalysis
- Vol. 9 (1) , 36-41
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s143192760303006x
Abstract
In this article, we show that nanometer-sized precipitates of atomic numbers higher than those of the surrounding crystalline matrix can be clearly revealed in a conventional transmission electron microscope by high-angle, centered dark-field imaging after minimizing the diffraction contrast. The effect is similar to that of Z-contrast STEM, albeit with a spatial resolution limited to 1 nm. Its sensitivity to atomic number differences between precipitates and matrix is about 10, which is demonstrated for precipitates formed after Er, Ge, Cr, and Si ion implantation into SiC.Keywords
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