Determination of manganese valency in La1-xSrxMnO3 using ELNES in the (S)TEM.

Autor: Riedl T; IFW Dresden, PF 270116, D-01171 Dresden, Germany. T.Riedl@ifw-dresden.de, Gemming T, Gruner W, Acker J, Wetzig K
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Micron (Oxford, England : 1993) [Micron] 2007; Vol. 38 (3), pp. 224-30. Date of Electronic Publication: 2006 Aug 01.
DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2006.06.017
Abstrakt: In this article several experimentally identified Mn valence-sensitive ELNES quantities for the La1-xSrxMnO3 compound class are presented, namely the energy separations between Mn-L3 and O-Ka, between O-Kb and O-Ka edges, the Mn-L2,3 white line intensity ratio, and the Mn-L3 line width. Valence sensitivities of these quantities are evaluated, and possible additional influences on them are considered. At high signal-to-noise ratio the two energy separations display most sensitively changes of the Mn valency. An experiment-based estimation of the total uncertainties of the quantities indicates that at low signal-to-noise ratio, which is the case when studying interface effects at high spatial resolution, again both energy separations allow to resolve the smallest valency changes.
Databáze: MEDLINE