Correlating atomic scale experimental observations to develop three-dimensional structural models for grain boundaries in oxides

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 48-57

  Buban, James P ^a   Moltaji, Habib O ^a   Duscher, Gerd ^a   Browning, Nigel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bond valence; Electron energy loss spectrometry; Grain boundaries; MgO; Multiple scattering; Z contrast

Indexed keywords

ANGUILLIFORMES;

EID: 0033454549     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927699000045     Document Type: Article

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