Precession electron diffraction and its advantages for structural fingerprinting in the transmission electron microscope

2010/01/07 by Peter Moeck, Sergei Rouvimov · 22 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Chemistry · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications #Chemistry #Condensed matter physics #Crystallography #Crystallography and Radiation Phenomena #Diffraction #Electron #Electron crystallography #Electron diffraction #Electron microscope #Materials science #Optics #Physics #Powder diffraction #Precession #Quantum mechanics #Reflection high-energy electron diffraction #Transmission electron microscopy #X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography

paper · pdf · doi:10.1524/zkri.2010.1162

published in Zeitschrift für Kristallographie 225(2-3), 110-124 (De Gruyter)

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Abstract

Abstract The foundations of precession electron diffraction in a transmission electron microscope are outlined. A brief illustration of the fact that laboratory-based powder X-ray diffraction fingerprinting is not feasible for nanocrystals is given. A procedure for structural fingerprinting of nanocrystals on the basis of structural data that can be extracted from precession electron diffraction spot patterns is proposed.

Citations

• Double conical beam-rocking system for measurement of integrated electron diffraction intensities
• Structure of Ti2P solved by three-dimensional electron diffraction data collected with the precession technique and high-resolution electron microscopy
• Structure Model for the Phase AlmFe Derived from Three-Dimensional Electron Diffraction Intensity Data Collected by a Precession Technique. Comparison with Convergent-Beam Diffraction
• “Ab initio” structure solution from electron diffraction data obtained by a combination of automated diffraction tomography and precession technique
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