A comparison of a direct electron detector and a high-speed video camera for a scanning precession electron diffraction phase and orientation mapping
| Autor: | A. C. Robins, S. McFadzean, Doug Cosart, Eduardo Nebot del Busto, Damien McGrouther, J. Portillo, J. K. Weiss, Ian MacLaren, Stavros Nicolopoulos, Enrique Frutos-Myro, Richard Skogeby |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
010302 applied physics
Diffraction Materials science Electron crystallography business.industry Detector Phase (waves) 02 engineering and technology Electron Inelastic scattering 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences Optics 0103 physical sciences Precession Precession electron diffraction 0210 nano-technology business Instrumentation |
| ISSN: | 1431-9276 |
| Popis: | A scanning precession electron diffraction system has been integrated with a direct electron detector to allow the collection of improved quality diffraction patterns. This has been used on a two-phase α–β titanium alloy (Timetal® 575) for phase and orientation mapping using an existing pattern-matching algorithm and has been compared to the commonly used detector system, which consisted of a high-speed video-camera imaging the small phosphor focusing screen. Noise is appreciably lower with the direct electron detector, and this is especially noticeable further from the diffraction pattern center where the real electron scattering is reduced and both diffraction spots and inelastic scattering between spots are weaker. The results for orientation mapping are a significant improvement in phase and orientation indexing reliability, especially of fine nanoscale laths of α-Ti, where the weak diffracted signal is rather lost in the noise for the optically coupled camera. This was done at a dose of ~19 e−/Å2, and there is clearly a prospect for reducing the current further while still producing indexable patterns. This opens the way for precession diffraction phase and orientation mapping of radiation-sensitive crystalline materials. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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