Grain boundary structural transformation induced by co-segregation of aliovalent dopants

The effect of aliovalent doping on grain boundary is not yet fully understood at the atomic level. Here, the authors report grain boundary structural transformation in α-Al2O3 is induced by co-segregation of multiple dopants using atomic-resolution electron microscopy and theoretical calculations.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Toshihiro Futazuka, Ryo Ishikawa, Naoya Shibata, Yuichi Ikuhara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32935-4