Microstructural and chemical characterization of ordered structure in yttrium doped ceria

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 102-110

  Yan, Pengfei ^a   Mori, Toshiyuki ^a   Wu, Yuanyuan ^a   Li, Zhimin ^a   Auchterlonie, Graeme John ^b   Zou, Jin ^b   Drennan, John ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

diffuse scattering; EELS; HRTEM; Key words doped ceria; ordered structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873359573     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927612013888     Document Type: Article

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