Precession Electron Diffraction Assisted Orientation Mapping in the Transmission Electron Microscope

Precession Electron Diffraction in the Transmission Electron Microscope: electron crystallography and orientational mapping

Precession electron diffraction (PED) is a hollow cone non-stationary illumination technique for electron diffraction pattern collection under quasikinematical conditions (as in X-ray Diffraction), which enables “ab-initio” solving of crystalline structures of nanocrystals. The PED technique is recently used in TEM instruments of voltages 100 to 300 kV to turn them into true electron diffractom...

Strain mapping at the nanoscale using precession electron diffraction in transmission electron microscope with off axis camera

Three-dimensional orientation mapping in the transmission electron microscope.

Over the past decade, efforts have been made to develop nondestructive techniques for three-dimensional (3D) grain-orientation mapping in crystalline materials. 3D x-ray diffraction microscopy and differential-aperture x-ray microscopy can now be used to generate 3D orientation maps with a spatial resolution of 200 nanometers (nm). We describe here a nondestructive technique that enables 3D ori...

Aberration-corrected precession electron diffraction

Precession electron diffraction (PED) is a promising technique for collecting high quality diffraction patterns for rapid nanoscale structural characterization [1]. It is able to reduce dynamical scattering effects, improving the interpretability of diffraction intensities over those obtained by conventional electron diffraction techniques. When used on a microscope that can produce a fine prob...

On the alignment for precession electron diffraction.

Precession electron diffraction has seen a fast increase in its adoption as a technique for solving crystallographic structures as well as an alternative to conventional selected-area and converged-beam diffraction methods. One of the key issues of precession is the pivot point alignment, as a stationary apparent beam does not guarantee a fixed pivot point. A large precession tilt angle, along ...