scholarly journals High speed direct imaging of thin metal film ablation by movie-mode dynamic transmission electron microscopy

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahar Hihath ◽  
Melissa K. Santala ◽  
Xi Cen ◽  
Geoffrey Campbell ◽  
Klaus van Benthem
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽  
Metal Film ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Thin Metal Film ◽  
Thin Metal ◽  
Direct Imaging ◽  
Transmission Electron

scholarly journals Compressed Sensing of Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) With Nonrectangular Scans

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 623-633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Li ◽  
Ondrej Dyck ◽  
Sergei V. Kalinin ◽  
Stephen Jesse
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Dynamic Range ◽  
Extended Defects ◽  
Scanning Transmission Electron ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Scanning Transmission

AbstractScanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) has become the main stay for materials characterization on atomic level, with applications ranging from visualization of localized and extended defects to mapping order parameter fields. In recent years, attention has focused on the potential of STEM to explore beam induced chemical processes and especially manipulating atomic motion, enabling atom-by-atom fabrication. These applications, as well as traditional imaging of beam sensitive materials, necessitate increasing the dynamic range of STEM in imaging and manipulation modes, and increasing the absolute scanning speed which can be achieved by combining sparse sensing methods with nonrectangular scanning trajectories. Here we have developed a general method for real-time reconstruction of sparsely sampled images from high-speed, noninvasive and diverse scanning pathways, including spiral scan and Lissajous scan. This approach is demonstrated on both the synthetic data and experimental STEM data on the beam sensitive material graphene. This work opens the door for comprehensive investigation and optimal design of dose efficient scanning strategies and real-time adaptive inference and control of e-beam induced atomic fabrication.

Growth of TiN/AlN Superlattice by Pulsed Laser Deposition

2002 ◽  
Vol 750 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Wang ◽  
A. Gupta ◽  
Ashutosh Tiwari ◽  
X. Zhang ◽  
J. Narayan
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽  
Pulsed Laser Deposition ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Pulsed Laser ◽  
Laser Deposition ◽  
Internal Stresses ◽  
Layer By Layer ◽  
Special Configuration ◽  
Transmission Electron

ABSTRACTTiN-AlN binary-components have attracted a lot of interests in coatings of high speed cutting tools, due to their higher oxidation resistance, higher hardness, lower internal stresses and better adhesion. Especially, nanometer-scale multilayer structures of AlN/TiN show superior structural and mechanical properties due to their tremendous interface area and become one of the promising candidates for superhard coatings. Here we present a novel method to grow highly aligned TiN/AlN superlattice by pulsed laser deposition. In this method TiN and AlN targets are arranged in a special configuration that they can be ablated in sequence, giving alternate layer by layer growth of TiN(1nm)/AlN(4nm). X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis showed the structure to be cubic for both TiN and AlN in the nanoscale multilayers. Microstructure and uniformity for the superlattice structure were studied by TEM and Scanning transmission electron microscopy with Z-contrast (STEM). Nanoindentation results indicated a higher hardness for this new structure than pure AlN and rule-of-mixtures value. Four point probe electrical resistivity measurements showed overall insulating behavior.

Unusual Rapidity of Electron Beam Transient Tempering

1986 ◽  
Vol 80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anjum Tauqir ◽  
Peter R. Strutt
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽  
Electron Beam ◽  
Thermal Treatment ◽  
Rapid Solidification ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Defect Cluster ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Nucleation Sites

AbstractElectron beam rapid solidification of molybdenum-base high speed steels results in quenched-in metastable phases containing a high concentration of alloying elements. Thermal reprocessing of such material by momentary interaction with the electron beam results in decomposition of martensite at a rate ≈ 100 times faster than that occurring during conventional thermal treatment. It is postulated that this arises from a high concentration of 'defect cluster nucleation sites' during the rapid up-quenching. The product of short thermal treatment is a dispersion of 2–5 nm very fine precipitates identified using transmission electron microscopy as MC type carbides.

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