論文

査読有り
2017年11月

Three-dimensional visualization of dislocations in a ferromagnetic material by magnetic-field-free electron tomography

ULTRAMICROSCOPY
  • Kana L. Hasezaki
  • ,
  • Hikaru Saito
  • ,
  • Takumi Sannomiya
  • ,
  • Hiroya Miyazaki
  • ,
  • Takashi Gondo
  • ,
  • Shinsuke Miyazaki
  • ,
  • Satoshi Hata

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開始ページ
249
終了ページ
257
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1016/j.ultramic.2017.07.016
出版者・発行元
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

In conventional transmission electron microscopy, specimens to be observed are placed in between the objective lens pole piece and therefore exposed to a strong magnetic field about 2 T. For a ferromagnetic specimen, magnetization of the specimen causes isotropic and anisotropic defocusing, deflection of the electron beam as well as deformation of the specimen, which all become more severe when the specimen tilted. Therefore electron tomography on a ferromagnetic crystalline specimen is highly challenging because tilt-series data sets must be acquired without changing the excitation condition of a specific diffraction spot. In this study, a scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) tomography method without magnetizing a ferromagnetic specimen has been developed for three-dimensional (3D) visualization of dislocations in alpha-Fe, which is a typical ferromagnetic material. Magnetic-field-free environment down to 0.38 +/- 0.07 mT at the specimen position is realized by demagnetizing the objective lens pole piece of a commercial STEM instrument. By using a spherical aberration corrector with the magnetic-field-free environment, an "aberration corrected Low-Mag STEM mode" with no objective lens field reaches a convergence semi angle similar to 1 mrad and a spatial resolution similar to 5 nm, and shows an adequate performance of imaging dislocations under a two-beam excitation condition for a low-index diffracted beam. The illumination condition for the aberration corrected Low-Mag STEM mode gives no overlap between the direct beam disk (spot) and neighboring diffraction disks. An electron channeling contrast imaging technique, in which an annular detector was located at a doughnut area between the direct beam and the neighboring diffracted beams, was effectively employed with the aberration corrected Low-Mag STEM mode to keep image intensity high enough even at large specimen-tilt angles. The resultant tomographic observation visualized 3D dislocation arrangements and active slip planes in a deformed alpha-Fe specimen. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2017.07.016
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000413436500032&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1016/j.ultramic.2017.07.016
  • ISSN : 0304-3991
  • eISSN : 1879-2723
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000413436500032

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