Three-dimensional coordinates of individual atoms in materials revealed by electron tomography

Nature Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1099-1103

  Xu, Rui ^a   Chen, Chien Chun ^a,b   Wu, Li ^a   Scott, M C ^a   Theis, W ^c   Ophus, Colin ^d   Bartels, Matthias ^a   Yang, Yongsoo ^a   Ramezani Dakhel, Hadi ^e   Sawaya, Michael R ^f   Heinz, Hendrik ^e   Marks, Laurence D ^g   Ercius, Peter ^d   Miao, Jianwei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e University of Akron   (United States)

^f HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; LATTICE CONSTANTS; POINT DEFECTS; TOMOGRAPHY;

3D COORDINATES; 3D RESOLUTION; ATOMIC DISPLACEMENT; ATOMIC POSITIONS; CRYSTALLINITIES; DYNAMICS SIMULATION; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COORDINATE;

ATOMS;

ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84944733336     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4426     Document Type: Article

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