Fast generation of calculated ADF-EDX scattering cross-sections under channelling conditions
Advanced materials often consist of multiple elements which are arranged in a complicated structure. Quantitative scanning transmission electron microscopy is useful to determine the composition and thickness of nanostructures at the atomic scale. However, significant difficulties remain to quantify...
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2022
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| author | Zhang, Z Lobato, I De Backer, A Van Aert, S Nellist, P |
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| description | Advanced materials often consist of multiple elements which are arranged in a complicated structure. Quantitative scanning transmission electron microscopy is useful to determine the composition and thickness of nanostructures at the atomic scale. However, significant difficulties remain to quantify mixed columns by comparing the resulting atomic resolution images and spectroscopy data with multislice simulations where dynamic scattering needs to be taken into account. The combination of the computationally intensive nature of these simulations and the enormous amount of possible mixed column configurations for a given composition indeed severely hamper the quantification process. To overcome these challenges, we here report the development of an incoherent non-linear method for the fast prediction of ADF-EDX scattering cross-sections of mixed columns under channelling conditions. We first explain the origin of the ADF and EDX incoherence from scattering physics suggesting a linear dependence between those two signals in the case of a high-angle ADF detector. Taking EDX as a perfect incoherent reference mode, we quantitatively examine the ADF longitudinal incoherence under different microscope conditions using multislice simulations. Based on incoherent imaging, the atomic lensing model previously developed for ADF is now expanded to EDX, which yields ADF-EDX scattering cross-section predictions in good agreement with multislice simulations for mixed columns in a core-shell nanoparticle and a high entropy alloy. The fast and accurate prediction of ADF-EDX scattering cross-sections opens up new opportunities to explore the wide range of ordering possibilities of heterogeneous materials with multiple elements. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:e8888c22-9767-4ad7-8f16-0f17944ed2112024-01-08T13:08:23ZFast generation of calculated ADF-EDX scattering cross-sections under channelling conditionsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:e8888c22-9767-4ad7-8f16-0f17944ed211EnglishSymplectic ElementsElsevier2022Zhang, ZLobato, IDe Backer, AVan Aert, SNellist, PAdvanced materials often consist of multiple elements which are arranged in a complicated structure. Quantitative scanning transmission electron microscopy is useful to determine the composition and thickness of nanostructures at the atomic scale. However, significant difficulties remain to quantify mixed columns by comparing the resulting atomic resolution images and spectroscopy data with multislice simulations where dynamic scattering needs to be taken into account. The combination of the computationally intensive nature of these simulations and the enormous amount of possible mixed column configurations for a given composition indeed severely hamper the quantification process. To overcome these challenges, we here report the development of an incoherent non-linear method for the fast prediction of ADF-EDX scattering cross-sections of mixed columns under channelling conditions. We first explain the origin of the ADF and EDX incoherence from scattering physics suggesting a linear dependence between those two signals in the case of a high-angle ADF detector. Taking EDX as a perfect incoherent reference mode, we quantitatively examine the ADF longitudinal incoherence under different microscope conditions using multislice simulations. Based on incoherent imaging, the atomic lensing model previously developed for ADF is now expanded to EDX, which yields ADF-EDX scattering cross-section predictions in good agreement with multislice simulations for mixed columns in a core-shell nanoparticle and a high entropy alloy. The fast and accurate prediction of ADF-EDX scattering cross-sections opens up new opportunities to explore the wide range of ordering possibilities of heterogeneous materials with multiple elements. |
| spellingShingle | Zhang, Z Lobato, I De Backer, A Van Aert, S Nellist, P Fast generation of calculated ADF-EDX scattering cross-sections under channelling conditions |
| title | Fast generation of calculated ADF-EDX scattering cross-sections under channelling conditions |
| title_full | Fast generation of calculated ADF-EDX scattering cross-sections under channelling conditions |
| title_fullStr | Fast generation of calculated ADF-EDX scattering cross-sections under channelling conditions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fast generation of calculated ADF-EDX scattering cross-sections under channelling conditions |
| title_short | Fast generation of calculated ADF-EDX scattering cross-sections under channelling conditions |
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