2016年7月
Determination of Elemental Ratio in an Atomic Column by Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
ACS Nano
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- 巻
- 10
- 号
- 7
- 開始ページ
- 6680
- 終了ページ
- 6684
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1021/acsnano.6b01887
- 出版者・発行元
- AMER CHEMICAL SOC
Atomic-resolution quantification of the elemental ratio of Fe to Mn at the octahedral and tetrahedral sites in brownmillerite Ca2Fe1.07Mn0.93O5 was determined using electron energy-loss spectroscopy combined with aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy. The combined techniques revealed that oversampling of the spectral imaging data yielded a spatially resolved area that very nearly reflects atomic resolution (similar to 1.2 angstrom radius). The average experimental ratios of Fe to Mn within this region were 17.5:82.5 for the octahedral sites and 81.6:18.4 for the tetrahedral sites. The elemental ratio in an octahedral atomic column was successfully extracted by estimating the mixing of signals from nearest neighbor columns. The results indicated that the ratio of Fe to Mn was 13:87 at the octahedral site, which is in good agreement with the results of neutron diffraction analysis. In addition, the uncertainty of experimental results obtained by using an average 1.2 angstrom radius was less than 10% at octahedral sites, depending on the sample thickness. In contrast, the experimental error due to dechanneling of incident electrons was larger at the tetrahedral sites. This experimental procedure has wide application for determining the spatially resolved composition ratio of elements in perovskite-like compounds.
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- DOI : 10.1021/acsnano.6b01887
- ISSN : 1936-0851
- eISSN : 1936-086X
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000380576600030