Characterization of grain structure in nanocrystalline gadolinium by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 342-346

  Seyring, Martin ^a   Song, Xiaoyan ^b   Chuvilin, Andrey ^c   Kaiser, Ute ^c   Rettenmayr, Markus ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GADOLINIUM; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING;

BRAGG CONDITIONS; CIRCULAR PATHS; DARK FIELDS; EXPERIMENTAL DYNAMICS; FOURIER RECONSTRUCTION; FOURIER SPECTRUMS; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; GRAIN STRUCTURES; HIGH-RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; HIGH-RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; HRTEM IMAGES; INVERSE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; NANO-CRYSTALLINE; NANO-GRAINS; NANOCRYSTALLINE GRAINS; NUMERICAL PROCEDURES; REAL SPACES; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; SIZE AND SHAPES; SPARK PLASMAS; ULTRAFINE;

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 61749083260     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2009.0071     Document Type: Article

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