Atomic structure and chemistry of dislocation cores at low-angle tilt grain boundary in SrTiO3 bicrystals

Acta Materialia

Volumn 89, Issue , 2015, Pages 344-351

  Du, Hongchu ^a,b   Jia, Chun Lin ^a   Houben, Lothar ^a   Metlenko, Veronika ^b   De Souza, Roger A ^b   Waser, Rainer ^a,b   Mayer, Joachim ^a,b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dislocations; EELS spectrum imaging; Grain boundaries; HAADF STEM; Strontium titanate

Indexed keywords

BICRYSTALS; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); EDGE DISLOCATIONS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRONTIUM ALLOYS; STRONTIUM TITANATES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EDGE DISLOCATION CORES; EELS SPECTRUM IMAGING; FACE-CENTERED CUBIC; HAADF-STEM; HIGH-ANGLE ANNULAR DARK FIELDS; SYMMETRIC TILT BOUNDARIES; TILT GRAIN BOUNDARY; TRANSPORTATION PROPERTIES;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84923367247     PISSN: 13596454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2015.02.016     Document Type: Article

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