The use of through focus exit wave reconstruction in the structure determination of several intermetallic superconductors

Autor:	D. Tang, Robert Joseph Cava, Hendrik Willem Zandbergen, Jacob Jansen
Rok vydání:	1996
Předmět:	Superconductivity Condensed matter physics Chemistry Phase (waves) Intermetallic Mineralogy Crystal structure Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials Crystal Amplitude Thin film Wave function Instrumentation
Zdroj:	Ultramicroscopy. 64:231-247
ISSN:	0304-3991
DOI:	10.1016/0304-3991(96)00015-0
Popis:	Copyright (c) 1996 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. The feasibility of the use of the through focus exit wave reconstruction method to determine structures of inorganic compounds is investigated. To illustrate the potential of the method recent structure determinations of several intermetallic compounds, e.g. YPd 2 B 2 C, LuNiBC, Lu 4 Ni 2 B 3 C 4 and ThPd x B 6−2x are discussed. It is shown that combination of the amplitude and phase information of the exit waves at various specimen thicknesses allows one to determine the positions of all atoms. Whereas the light atoms can be best distinguished in the phase image of a somewhat thicker part of a crystal, the heavy atoms can be observed most reliably in the amplitude part. In particular the change of the exit wave with thickness was found to be very useful in the determination of the presence of light atoms.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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