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The Role of Simulation in ALCHEMI

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

Chris Rossouw
Chris Rossouw*
Affiliation:
CSIRO Manufacturing Science & Technology, Private Bag 33, Clayton South MDC, Australia3169
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Abstract

Contrast in zone axis channelling patterns, formed by variations in characteristic X-ray emission rates as an electron beam is scanned in angle, is related to projected sublattice site symmetries of ionized atoms within the unit cell. Whereas overall Brillouin zone geometry is identical to that observed in large angle convergent beam patterns, this incoherent X-ray channelling contrast is related to ADF or BSE contrast by integration over thickness of the signal generated within the specimen. Contrast is thus relatively stable and easily interpretable.1 This is useful in separating the response of dilute atoms from abundant atomic species, since the specific channelling pattern of each atom has its own overall fingerprint. Correlation of patterns formed from Ta-doped TiAl with bright field LACBED is shown in Fig. 1 (clearly Ta occupies Ti sublattice sites). No simulation of channelling contrast is necessary if minority atomic species are distributed over sublattice sites in a way that can be reconstructed from a linear superposition of majority (or host) atom sites that form part of the regular lattice structure. The distribution over sublattice sites may be determined by any one of a variety of analysis methods.2,3

Type
Atom Location by Channeling Enhancement of X-Ray and EELS Signals (ALCHEMI)(organized by J.Spence)
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. 352 - 353
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2001

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