Aberration-corrected TEM imaging of oxygen occupancy in YSZ

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1156-1160

  An, Jihwan ^a   Koh, Ai Leen ^b   Park, Joong Sun ^a   Sinclair, Robert ^c   Gür, Turgut M ^c   Prinz, Fritz B ^a,c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

aberration corrected TEM; grain boundary; oxide ion conductor; oxygen vacancy; YSZ

Indexed keywords

ABERRATION-CORRECTED; ATOMIC-SCALE ANALYSIS; CHARACTERIZATION TOOLS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; OXIDE ION CONDUCTORS; SINGLE GRAIN BOUNDARIES; YSZ; YTTRIA-STABILIZED ZIRCONIAS (YSZ);

ATOMS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; OXYGEN VACANCIES; YTTRIA STABILIZED ZIRCONIA; ZIRCONIA;

OXYGEN;

EID: 84875777830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz4002423     Document Type: Article

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