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Informatics for Quantitative Analysis of Atom Probe Tomography Images

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Santosh K Suram
Affiliation:
krajan@iastate.edu, Iowa State University, Materials Science and Engineering, AMES, Iowa, United States
Krishna Rajan
Affiliation:
sksuram@iastate.edu, Iowa State University, Materials Science and Engineering, AMES, Iowa, United States
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Abstract

An informatics based approach to extract further refinements on the crystallographic information embedded in the Spatial Distribution Maps (SDMs) has been developed. The data mining based methods to generate and interpret spectra that de-convolute the SDMs are discussed. This work has resulted in a method to generate SDMs that can map three-dimensional crystallographic information as opposed to existing methods that map structural information on only one atomic plane at a time. The broader implications of this work on enhancing the interpretation and resolution of structural information in atom probe tomography studies is also discussed.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2010

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