Document Type

Article

Abstract

The orientation dependence of thin-crystal lattice fringes can be gracefully quantified using fringe-visibility maps, a direct-space analog of Kikuchi maps [Nishikawa and Kikuchi, Nature (London) 121, 1019 (1928)]. As in navigation of reciprocal space with the aid of Kikuchi lines, fringe-visibility maps facilitate acquisition of crystallographic information from lattice images. In particular, these maps can help researchers to determine the three-dimensional lattice of individual nanocrystals, to “fringe-fingerprint” collections of randomly oriented particles, and to measure local specimen thickness with only a modest tilt. Since the number of fringes in an image increases with maximum spatial-frequency squared, these strategies (with help from more precise goniometers) will be more useful as aberration correction moves resolutions into the subangstrom range.

Publication Date

December 2005

Publication Title

Journal of Applied Physics

Volume

98

Issue

11

Comments

This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in [Fraundorf, P., Qin, W., Moeck, P., and Mandell, E. (2005). Making sense of nanocrystal lattice fringes. Journal of Applied Physics 98, 114308.] and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2135414.

DOI

10.1063/1.2135414

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