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Atomic Resolution Imaging of Rotated Bilayer Graphene Sheets Using a Low kV Aberration-corrected Transmission Electron Microscope

  • Ryu, Gyeong Hee;Park, Hyo Ju;Kim, Na Yeon;Lee, Zonghoon
    • Applied Microscopy
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    • v.42 no.4
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    • pp.218-222
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    • 2012
  • Modern aberration-corrected transmission electron microscope (TEM) with appropriate electron beam energy is able to achieve atomic resolution imaging of single and bilayer graphene sheets. Especially, atomic configuration of bilayer graphene with a rotation angle can be identified from the direct imaging and phase reconstructed imaging since atomic resolution Moir$\acute{e}$ pattern can be obtained successfully at atomic scale using an aberration-corrected TEM. This study boosts a reliable stacking order analysis, which is required for synthesized or artificially prepared multilayer graphene, and lets graphene researchers utilize the information of atomic configuration of stacked graphene layers readily.

Atomically sculptured heart in oxide film using convergent electron beam

  • Gwangyeob Lee;Seung-Hyub Baek;Hye Jung Chang
    • Applied Microscopy
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    • v.51
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    • pp.1.1-1.2
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    • 2021
  • We demonstrate a fabrication of an atomically controlled single-crystal heart-shaped nanostructure using a convergent electron beam in a scanning transmission electron microscope. The delicately controlled e-beam enable epitaxial crystallization of perovskite oxide LaAlO3 grown out of the relative conductive interface (i.e. 2 dimensional electron gas) between amorphous LaAlO3/crystalline SrTiO3.

Formation Dynamics of Carbon Atomic Chain from Graphene by Electron Beam Irradiation

  • Park, Hyo Ju;Lee, Zonghoon
    • Applied Microscopy
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    • v.48 no.4
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    • pp.126-127
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    • 2018
  • Carbon has numerous allotropes and various crystalline forms with full dimensionalities such as diamond, graphite, fullerenes, and carbon nanotubes leading a wide range of applications. Since the emerge of graphene consisting of a single atomic layer of carbon atoms, a fabrication of all-carbon-based device with combination of one-, two-, and three-dimensional carbons has become a hot issue. Here, we introduce an ultimate one-dimensional carbon atomic chain. Carbon atomic chains were experimentally created by removing atoms from monolayer graphene sheet under electron beam inside transmission electron microscope (TEM). A series of TEM images demonstrate the dynamics of carbon atomic chains over time from the formation, transformation, and then breakage.

High Speed and Sensitive X-ray Analysis System with Automated Aberration Correction Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope

  • Inada, Hiromi;Hirayama, Yoichi;Tamura, Keiji;Terauchi, Daisuke;Namekawa, Ryoji;Shichiji, Takeharu;Sato, Takahiro;Suzuki, Yuya;Ohtsu, Yoshihiro;Watanabe, Keitaro;Konno, Mitsuru;Tanaka, Hiroyuki;Saito, Koichiro;Shimoyama, Wataru;Nakamura, Kuniyasu;Kaji, Kazutoshi;Hashimoto, Takahito
    • Applied Microscopy
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2015
  • We have developed a new HD-2700 (Hitachi High-Technologies Corp., Japan) scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) that includes an automatic aberration correction function, and a large-solid-angle energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy detector that enables high-resolution and sensitive analysis. For observation with atomic resolution, using spherical-aberration-corrected STEM, in order that satisfactory performance of the device can be achieved readily, and within a short time, irrespective of the operator's skill level, a spherical-aberration-correction device with an automatic aberration-correction function was developed. This automatic aberration-correction function carries out the entire correction-related process (aberration measurement, selection and correction) automatically, with automatic selection of the aberrations that require correction, and automatic measurement of the appropriate corrections.