Quantitative Electron Diffraction Data of Amorphous Materials

Autor: Ankele, Jürgen, Mayer, Joachim, Lamparter, Peter, Steeb, Siegfried
Zdroj: Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A; June 2005, Vol. 60 Issue: 6 p459-468, 10p
Abstrakt: A method has been developed to obtain quantitative electron diffraction data up to a value of Q = 20 Å−1of the modulus of the scattering vector. The experiments were performed on a commercially available transmission electron microscope equipped with a so-called omega energy filter. An analytical multiple scattering correction was applied. The electron diffraction results obtained with amorphous germanium were compared with X-ray and neutron diffraction data and showed good agreement. For an amorphous Ni63Nb37sample it was shown that it is possible to estimate the multiple scattering intensity without exact knowledge of the sample thickness. This technique was applied to derive the structure factor for electron diffraction of two precursor-derived amorphous Si-C-N ceramics (a-Si24C43N33and a-Si40C24N36). The results are consistent with corresponding X-ray diffraction data and with an existing structural model for such ceramics.
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