Application of High-Angle Annular Dark Field Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy, Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectrometry, and Energy-Filtered Transmission Electron Microscopy to the Characterization of Nanoparticles in the Environment

2003 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 786-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satoshi Utsunomiya ◽  
Rodney C. Ewing
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽  
Dark Field ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Scanning Transmission Electron ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Scanning Transmission ◽  
Annular Dark Field

A further investigation of the complex M3 murataite structure using Hf substitution and STEM-EELS techniques

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 442-448
Author(s):  
Ryosuke S. S. Maki ◽  
Peter E. D. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽  
Radioactive Waste ◽  
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽  
Dark Field ◽  
Site Preference ◽  
Scanning Transmission Electron ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Scanning Transmission ◽  
Annular Dark Field

Many members of the complex crystalline fluorite supercell structures (e.g. zirconolite, pyrochlore and murataite polytypes) have been considered/studied for possible long-term radioactive-waste immobilization. The eight-coordinated sites in these crystals are of particular importance because they are preferred for the accommodation of trivalent rare earths and actinides present in radioactive waste from fuel element processing. The fluorite-type supercell structures include the murataites, M3, M5, M7, M8, having those numbers of repeating fluorite sub-cell units. One simple technique, as shown here, namely the substitution of Hf into the Zr site, is very helpful for structural analysis in these very complex cases in order to further illuminate the site preference of the Zr ion. Three M3 murataite samples, Ca-Mn-Ti-Zr-Al-Fe-O (regular M3), Ca-Ti-Zr-Al-Fe-O (Mn-free M3) and Ca-Mn-Ti-Hf-Al-Fe-O (Hf-substituted M3) are investigated and, through techniques described for larger cells, show that the Zr is very likely not to be hosted in the [6] Ti site in the M3 murataite structure, as suggested by Pakhomova et al. [(2013), Z. Kristallogr. Cryst. Mater. 228, 151–156], but more likely replaces the [8] Ca1 site and less likely the [8] Ca2 site. This adjusted site preference for each cation from the powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) and scanning transmission electron microscopy electron energy-loss spectroscopy (STEM-EELS) methods, agrees well with the high-angle annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy (HAADF-STEM) image.

An Efficient Technique to Quantify Dislocation Densities Imaged Through Annular Dark Field Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1038-1039
Author(s):  
C.T. Schamp ◽  
P.Y. Hung ◽  
B.G. Min
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽  
Dark Field ◽  
Efficient Technique ◽  
Scanning Transmission Electron ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Dislocation Densities ◽  
Scanning Transmission ◽  
Annular Dark Field

Extended abstract of a paper presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2012 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, July 29 – August 2, 2012.

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