Publication
Title
Fast pixelated detectors in scanning transmission electron microscopy, part II : post-acquisition data processing, visualization, and structural characterization
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Abstract
Fast pixelated detectors incorporating direct electron detection (DED) technology are increasingly being regarded as universal detectors for scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), capable of imaging under multiple modes of operation. However, several issues remain around the post-acquisition processing and visualization of the often very large multidimensional STEM datasets produced by them. We discuss these issues and present open source software libraries to enable efficient processing and visualization of such datasets. Throughout, we provide examples of the analysis methodologies presented, utilizing data from a 256 x 256 pixel Medipix3 hybrid DED detector, with a particular focus on the STEM characterization of the structural properties of materials. These include the techniques of virtual detector imaging; higher-order Laue zone analysis; nanobeam electron diffraction; and scanning precession electron diffraction. In the latter, we demonstrate a nanoscale lattice parameter mapping with a fractional precision <= 6 x 10(-4) (0.06%).
Language
English
Source (journal)
Microscopy and microanalysis. - Cambridge, Mass.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : 2020
ISSN
1431-9276
DOI
10.1017/S1431927620024307
Volume/pages
26 :5 (2020) , p. 944-963
ISI
000576859800011
Pubmed ID
32883393
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UAntwerpen
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Research group
Project info
Nanometre scale imaging of magnetic perovskite oxide thin films using scanning transmission electron microscopy (MAGIMOX).
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Web of Science
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Creation 30.10.2020
Last edited 02.10.2024
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