Three-dimensional atom probe

By combining calorimetry with three-dimensional atom probe analysis, Starink and coworkers [25] examined the aging, at room-temperature, of Al-Cu-Mg-Mn alloys and found that the process is accompanied by a substantial exothermic heat evolution, whereas the only micro-structural change involved the formation of Cu-Mg co-clusters. Tatar and Zengin [26] studied the effects of neutron irradiation on the oxidation behaviour, microstructure and transformation temperatures of CuAlNiMn shape-memory alloy. They showed that irradiation... 

Kelly, T. F., D. J. Larson, M. K. Miller, and J. E. Flinn. 1999. Three dimensional atom probe investigation of vanadium nitride precipitates and the role of oxygen and boron in rapidly solidified 316 stainless steel. Mater. Sci. Eng. A 270 19-26. 

FEM Finite-elements method 3D-APM Three-dimensional atom probe... 

Athenstaedt, W. and Leisch, M. (1996) The segregation behavior of a PtgoRhio alloy studied with a three dimensional atom-probe. Appl. Surf. Sci., 94—95, 403 08. 

Pareige P, Radiguet B, Krnmmeich-Brangier R, Barbu A, Zabusov O and Kozodaev M (2005), Atomic-level observation with three-dimensional atom probe of the solute behaviour in nentron-, ion- or electron-irradiated ferritic alloys , Philo Mag, 85,429-411. 

S.J. Sijbrandij, A. Cerezo,T.J. Godfrey and G.D.W. Smith, Improvements in the mass resolution of the three-dimensional atom probe , Appl. Surf Sci., 1996, 94/95,428. 

D. Vaumousse, A. Cerezo and EJ. Warren, A procedure for quantification of precipitate microstructures from three-dimensional atom probe data . Ultramicroscopy, 2003,95,215-221. 

T. Toyama, Y. Nagai, Z. Tang, M. Hasegawa, A. Almazouzi, E. van Walle and R. Gerard, Nanostructural evolution in surveillance test specimens of a commercial nuclear reactor pressure vessel studied by three-dimensional atom probe and positron annihilation , Acta Mater, 2007,55, 6852-6860. 

DAP Three-dimensional atom probe transistor... 

Seidman, D.N. (2007) Three-dimensional atom-probe tomography advances and applications. Annual Review of Materials Research, 37,127-158. 

Thompson, K., Bunton, J.H., Kelly, T.F, Larson, D.I (2006) Characterization of ultralow-energy implants and towards the analysis of three-dimensional dopant distributions using three-dimensional atom-probe tomography. Journal of Vacuum Science Technology B.Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures, 24, 421-427. 

Larson, D.I, Petford-Long, A.K., Ma, Y.Q., Cerezo, A. (2004) Information storage materials nanoscale characterisation by three-dimensional atom probe analysis. Acta Materialia, 52,2847-2862. 

Thompson, K., Flaitz, P.L., Ronsheim, P, Larson, D.J., Kelly,TF. (2007) Imaging of arsenic Cottrell atmospheres around silicon defects by three-dimensional atom probe tomography. Science, 317,1370-1374. 

Geuser, F.D., Lefebvre, W., Danoix, E, Vnrpillot, E, Forbord, B., Blavette, D. (2007) An improved reconstruction procedure for the correction of local magnification effects in three-dimensional atom-probe. Surface and Interface Analysis, 39, 268-272. 

Gu, G.H., Park, C.G., Nam, K.B. (2009) Inhomogeneity of a highly efficient InGaN based blue LED studied by three-dimensional atom probe tomography. Physica Status Solidi (RRL)—Rapid Research Letters, 3, 100-102. 

Recent advances in three-dimensional microtomography as discussed below present the opportunity to map hidden damage in three dimensions and in real time. Advances in the three-dimensional atom probe tomography, three-dimensional secondary ion mass spectroscopy, and three-dimensional techniques focused ion beam sectioning are all helpful, but the need exists to combine these approaches into a supertool than can raster over large areas and then focus on sites of interests with high resolution. 

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