Selected area diffraction

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Fig.6 AJIoy AlZn78 quenched from 643K to room temperature water, (a) Transmission electron micrograph, (b) Corresponding Selected Area Diffraction Pattern (SADP).

Fig. 3 (left) TEM bright-field and (middle) dark-field images, and (right) selected area diffraction pattern from a 20 vol% Si3N4/5052 Al composite at 548 °C. (from Ref. [8,9])... 

Figure 4. Electron micrographs of mineral aurichalcite calcined at 400 C for 4 hours, (a) Bright field image, (b) Selected area diffraction pattern showing ZnO orientations with zone axes of [1010], [3031] and [5051]. See text for other ZnO orientations.

Figure 6. Digital x-ray imaging of zeolite ZSM-5 (Si/Al 49,5) thin section a) bright-field STEM image, b) A1 x-ray image smoothed by averaging each pixel with its 8 nearest neighbors. The darker shading within the particle indicates higher A1 content. The circular field is due to the image of the selected area diffraction aperture.

Selected area diffraction (SAD) combined with microscopy is an important supplementary tool to X-ray diffraction in crystal structure analysis. SAD has the additional advantage of giving the correlation between morphology and crystal structure whenever single crystals are too small for single-crystal X-ray analysis. 

Fig. 33. Selected area diffraction patterns of Ti-Al alloys taken on the [001] zone axis which show the increasing relative intensity of the superlattice reflections with increasing Ti content (a) 3 a/o Ti, (b) 5 a/o Ti, (c) 16 a/o Ti, and (d) 24 a/o Ti. A labeled schematic of the diffraction pattern is shown [188],...

Figure 10c. Typical HREM image (with associated selected area diffraction pattern and schematic illustration of framework structure) after dealumination of a faufasitic zeolite by exposure to SiCl4.

An example of CBED pattern is given in fig. 2. The pattern consists of disks. Each disk can be divided into many pixels, each pixel approximately represents one incident beam direction. For an example, let us take the beam P in fig. 2. This particular beam gives one set of dififaction pattern shown as the full lines. The diffraction pattern by the incident beam P is the same as the selected area diffraction pattern with a single parallel incident beam. For a second beam P , which comes at different angle compared to P, the diffraction pattern in this case is displaced from that of P by a/A. with a as the angle between the two incident beams. 

A small spot size for electron diffraction is used for three reasons i) to have a relatively small variation of thickness since most crystals are wedge shaped, ii) to reduce the amount of unwanted information like that of the matrix around a small precipitate and iii) to have a little variation in the crystal orientation. The latter reason is quite important which one can appreciate by moving the electron beam in nanodiffiaction mode over the specimen although the crystal is well aligned according to the selected area diffraction, fluctuations in orientation over 1 to 2° in all directions occur, even for areas which are very close to each other (10-50 nm). Such orientation variations should be considered as normal rather than an exception. 

If the area of investigation needs to be reduced under the limit, given by the smallest available selected area diffraction apperture, nanodififaction can be used. A C2 apperture of 10pm will provide us with an approximate parallel illumination at a beam diameter down to 5nm and reduce the applied electron dose significantly. Because the majority of organic samples are beam sensitive investigations should be carried out under low-dose conditions. In addition to that cryo techniques should be applied if no phase... 

Transmission electron microscopy ( ) analysis reveals that these materials crystallize as hexagonal planar particles with marked anisotropic shape,8,37 as shown in Figure 6. When appropriate preparation methods are used, plate-like crystals are obtained with small thickness of about 20-30 nm and an aspect ratio D/h=5-10. Selected area diffraction (SAD) patterns of incident beams perpendicular and parallel to the large hexagonal facet show that they correspond to the crystallographic planes perpendicular to the c axis. The anisotropic shape of the... 

Figure 10. Selected-area diffraction pattern from an ultrathin section of the whole of one sphere...

The spheres were observed in the electron microscope at sizes varying from 10 microns down to 0.1 micron, and less. At the lower end of this range the spheres could be located by selected-area diffraction but often could not be resolved because of lack of contrast. 

If there is alignment, contrast in TEM images is strong, because of the periodic strain field in the crystal. Selected-area diffraction shows evidence of such alignment by the location of satellite intensities around the Bragg peaks arising from the modulation of atomic scattering factors, lattice constant, or both [19]. In Fig. 18.10, the electron diffraction effects, expected from an f.c.c. crystal with (100) composition waves, are depicted with a [001] beam direction. 

Local Orientation. The most striking observation of this work is that the selected area diffraction patterns are not in general of a Debye-Scherrer type. Among the various hypotheses which can be drawn to understand such a fact, the most probable one is that the sections are not truly transverse ones indeed, if one supposes the existence of a cylindrical symmetry at the level of each selected area, 0.5 to 1 ym in diameter (the symmetry axis being always parallel to the fiber axis) the "detectable" network main planes have to be parallel to 1he "c" axis of the individual... 

Looking at the microstructure for samples above and below the maximum in coercivity, Fig. 21 shows that the FePt islands become interconnected above the coercivity maximum while below the maximum the islands are well separated. In the insets of Fig. 21(a) and (b) are the selected area diffraction (SAD) patterns for the samples. These indicate a single crystal FCT pattern with (001) orientation. Adjacent to the FePt diffraction spots are the (001) MgO single crystal spots indicating a slight mismatch in the lattice spacing of the two materials and a good epitaxial relationship between the two. 

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