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Uncertainties in Stereo Lattice Imaging

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

W. Qin  and
P. Fraundorf
P. Fraundorf
Affiliation:
Physics & Astronomy Department and CME, University of Missouri-StL, St. Louis, MO, 63121
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Abstract

Three-dimensional reconstruction in TEM is an established technique in both electron diffraction crystallography and electron tomography [1,2]. By stereo lattice imaging, we refer to a different task: determination of unit cell parameters in 3D using only direct-space lattice images at two or more (often widely varying) orientations [3,4], This note concerns the uncertainties associated with lattice parameter determinations by this technique. in particular, for decreasing crystal thickness the broadening of reciprocal lattice spots increases one’s chances to visualize lattice fringes. At the same time, however, it introduces uncertainties in reciprocal lattice vector length and direction.

In the following discussion, sources from which uncertainties arise are assumed to be uncorrected. Three sources of uncertainty for reciprocal lattice vectors which lie in the plane of the specimen stage (and hence can be imaged directly as fringes) are, in order of decreasing relative size as follows:

Type
Quantitative Transmission Electron Microscopy of Interfaces (Organized by M. Rüehle, Y. Zhu and U. Dahmen)
Information
Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 7 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis 2001, Microscopy Society of America 59th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 35th Annual Meeting, Long Beach, California August 5-9, 2001 , August 2001 , pp. 270 - 271
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2001

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