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Structural Fingerprinting of Nanocrystals: Advantages of Precession Electron Diffraction, Automated Crystallite Orientation and Phase Maps

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Strategies for the structurally identification of nanocrystals from Precession Electron Diffraction (PED) patterns in a Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) are outlined. A single-crystal PED pattern may be utilized for the structural identification of an individual nanocrystal. Ensembles of nanocrystals may be fingerprinted structurally from “powder PED patterns”. Highly reliable “crystal orientation & structure” maps may be obtained from automatically recorded and processed scanning-PED patterns at spatial resolutions that are superior to those of the competing electron backscattering diffraction technique of scanning electron microscopy. The analysis procedure of that automated technique has recently been extended to Fourier transforms of high resolution TEM images, resulting in similarly effective mappings. Open-access crystallographic databases are mentioned as they may be utilized in support of our structural fingerprinting strategies.

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This research was supported by awards from the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute. Additional support from Portland State University's Venture Development Fund is acknowledged. Prof. Daniel R. Gamelin of the University of Washington at Seattle and Dr. Klaus H. Pecher of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are thanked for the cassiterite, rutile, and iron-oxide samples. Dr. Kurt Langworthy of the University of Oregon's Center for Advanced Materials Characterization in Oregon is thanked for his assistance in operating the aberration-corrected FEI Titan 80-300 microscope. Prof. Marie Cheynet of the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble is thanked for the HRTEM image of Fig. 6 (which was taken with an aberration-corrected FEI Titan 80-300 microscope in Grenoble) from PbSe nanocrystals that were produced by Dr. Odile Robbe of the Université de Lille.

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  1. Nano-Crystallography Group, Department of Physics, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 97207-0751, USA

    Peter Moeck & Sergei Rouvimov

  2. Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute, USA

    Peter Moeck & Sergei Rouvimov

  3. SIMAP/GPM2 Laboratoire, CNRS-Grenoble INP, BP 46, 101 rue de la Physique, 38402, Saint Martin d'Hères, France

    Edgar F. Rauch

  4. NanoMEGAS SPRL, Boulevard Edmond Machterns No 79, Saint Jean Molenbeek, Brussels, B-1080, Belgium

    Stavros Nicolopoulos

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Moeck, P., Rouvimov, S., Rauch, E.F. et al. Structural Fingerprinting of Nanocrystals: Advantages of Precession Electron Diffraction, Automated Crystallite Orientation and Phase Maps. MRS Online Proceedings Library 1184, 1–12 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-1184-GG03-07

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