In situ study of annealing-induced strain relaxation in diamond nanoparticles using Bragg coherent diffraction imaging

Autor: S. O. Hruszkewycz, W. Cha, P. Andrich, C. P. Anderson, A. Ulvestad, R. Harder, P. H. Fuoss, D. D. Awschalom, F. J. Heremans
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: APL Materials, Vol 5, Iss 2, Pp 026105-026105-6 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2166-532X
DOI: 10.1063/1.4974865
Popis: We observed changes in morphology and internal strain state of commercial diamond nanocrystals during high-temperature annealing. Three nanodiamonds were measured with Bragg coherent x-ray diffraction imaging, yielding three-dimensional strain-sensitive images as a function of time/temperature. Up to temperatures of 800 °C, crystals with Gaussian strain distributions with a full-width-at-half-maximum of less than 8×10−4 were largely unchanged, and annealing-induced strain relaxation was observed in a nanodiamond with maximum lattice distortions above this threshold. X-ray measurements found changes in nanodiamond morphology at temperatures above 600 °C that are consistent with graphitization of the surface, a result verified with ensemble Raman measurements.
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