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Scanning precession electron tomography for three-dimensional nanoscale orientation imaging and crystallographic analysis.


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Authors

Eggeman, Alexander S 
Midgley, Paul A 

Abstract

Three-dimensional (3D) reconstructions from electron tomography provide important morphological, compositional, optical and electro-magnetic information across a wide range of materials and devices. Precession electron diffraction, in combination with scanning transmission electron microscopy, can be used to elucidate the local orientation of crystalline materials. Here we show, using the example of a Ni-base superalloy, that combining these techniques and extending them to three dimensions, to produce scanning precession electron tomography, enables the 3D orientation of nanoscale sub-volumes to be determined and provides a one-to-one correspondence between 3D real space and 3D reciprocal space for almost any polycrystalline or multi-phase material.

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Keywords

Physical sciences, Material science, Nanotechnology

Journal Title

Nat Commun

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Journal ISSN

2041-1723
2041-1723

Volume Title

6

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/H500375/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/H017712/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/H022309/1)
European Research Council (291522)
European Commission (312483)
A.S.E. and P.A.M acknowledge financial support from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement 291522-3DIMAGE, the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission: ESTEEM2, contract number 312483, EPSRC grant number EP/H017712/1 and the Royal Society. R.K. acknowledges financial support from Rolls-Royce, EPSRC and the BMWi under EP/H022309/1, EP/H500375/1 and grant number 20T0813. We are grateful to Professor Edgar Rauch for valuable discussion on the use of the Astar system, to Dr Cathie Rae and Dr Mark Hardy of Rolls-Royce for supply of the superalloy samples and valuable discussion about their microstructure, Dr Zineb Saghi for help with the tomographic reconstructions and Dr Francisco de la Peña for help with the NMF decompositions.