Gallium-enhanced phase contrast in atom probe tomography of nanocrystalline and amorphous Al-Mn alloys

Ultramicroscopy

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1062-1072

  Ruan, Shiyun ^a   Torres, Karen L ^b   Thompson, Gregory B ^b   Schuh, Christopher A ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b University of Alabama   (United States)

Author keywords

Amorphous alloys; Atom probe tomography; Nanocomposites; Nanocrystalline alloys; Solute segregation

Indexed keywords

AL-MN ALLOYS; AMORPHOUS PHASE; ATOM PROBE TOMOGRAPHY; CHEMICAL MARKERS; DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; FOCUSED ION BEAM MILLING; NANO-CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURES; NANOCRYSTALLINES; PHASE CONTRASTS; ROBUST IDENTIFICATION; SAMPLE PREPARATION; SINGLE PHASE; SOLUTE DISTRIBUTION; SOLUTE SEGREGATION; STANDARD METHOD; STRUCTURAL CHANGE;

ALUMINUM; AMORPHOUS ALLOYS; ATOMS; CERIUM ALLOYS; DATA REDUCTION; GALLIUM ALLOYS; ION BEAMS; MANGANESE; NANOCOMPOSITES; PROBES;

NANOCRYSTALLINE ALLOYS;

ALUMINUM; GALLIUM; MANGANESE; NANOCRYSTAL;

ARTICLE; ATOM PROBE TOMOGRAPHY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATERIAL STATE; PARTICLE SIZE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79959921203     PISSN: 03043991     EISSN: 18792723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2011.01.026     Document Type: Article

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