Quantitative Statistical Analysis of Atomic Scale Structural and Chemical Variations in Complex Oxides Interfaces PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Quantitative Statistical Analysis of Atomic Scale Structural and Chemical Variations in Complex Oxides Interfaces PDF full book. Access full book title Quantitative Statistical Analysis of Atomic Scale Structural and Chemical Variations in Complex Oxides Interfaces by Hao Yang. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Hao Yang Publisher: ISBN: 9781303541285 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
Grain boundaries (GBs) are known to have far-reaching effects on the electrical and mechanical properties of materials. Understanding the atomic scale mechanisms behind these effects requires an accurate determination of the interplay between GB structure and composition. Based on the analysis of a range of grain boundaries using aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), a general structural units model has been derived for the structure of grain boundaries in various dense packing cubic materials including FCC metals, perovskites and fluorites. The similarities in the observed grain boundary structures of these materials originate from related space (and point) group symmetries of the parent structures. The presence of structural variations away from the general structural units model may be caused by frustrations of certain symmetry operations that result from the incorporation of point defects (vacancies and impurities). A clear understanding of the similarity and variation in grain boundary atomic structures will not only provide a means to infer the structure-property relationships in broad classes of materials, but also enables us eventually to effectively manipulate the GB structures to achieve better materials properties.To understand these chemical induced variations, and further quantify exactly how atomic scale variations at the boundary plane extend to the practical mesoscale operating length of the system, statistical analysis has been applied to the aberration corrected STEM Z-contrast images acquired from a series of undoped and doped SrTiO3 GBs. In order to understand the effects of oxygen vacancies incorporation, in-situ characterization of GB atomic structures were performed using the Environmental TEM under the reduced gas and heating environment. This analysis of GB similarity and variation provides insights into the structure-composition relationship in GBs to understand the influence of nonstoichiometry and dopant segregations. It also helps to determine experimentally the energetics behind the formation of grain boundary structures to predict GB formation in various materials.
Author: Hao Yang Publisher: ISBN: 9781303541285 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
Grain boundaries (GBs) are known to have far-reaching effects on the electrical and mechanical properties of materials. Understanding the atomic scale mechanisms behind these effects requires an accurate determination of the interplay between GB structure and composition. Based on the analysis of a range of grain boundaries using aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), a general structural units model has been derived for the structure of grain boundaries in various dense packing cubic materials including FCC metals, perovskites and fluorites. The similarities in the observed grain boundary structures of these materials originate from related space (and point) group symmetries of the parent structures. The presence of structural variations away from the general structural units model may be caused by frustrations of certain symmetry operations that result from the incorporation of point defects (vacancies and impurities). A clear understanding of the similarity and variation in grain boundary atomic structures will not only provide a means to infer the structure-property relationships in broad classes of materials, but also enables us eventually to effectively manipulate the GB structures to achieve better materials properties.To understand these chemical induced variations, and further quantify exactly how atomic scale variations at the boundary plane extend to the practical mesoscale operating length of the system, statistical analysis has been applied to the aberration corrected STEM Z-contrast images acquired from a series of undoped and doped SrTiO3 GBs. In order to understand the effects of oxygen vacancies incorporation, in-situ characterization of GB atomic structures were performed using the Environmental TEM under the reduced gas and heating environment. This analysis of GB similarity and variation provides insights into the structure-composition relationship in GBs to understand the influence of nonstoichiometry and dopant segregations. It also helps to determine experimentally the energetics behind the formation of grain boundary structures to predict GB formation in various materials.
Author: Meng Gu Publisher: ISBN: 9781267240491 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
Materials with the ABO3 perovskite structure possess a wide variety of properties including superconductivity, ferroelectric, and magnetic properties. These properties are highly tunable due to the fact that the B site cation can assume multiple valence states and its high structural stability allows for large scale doping and strain. Due to a reduced dimensionality, two dimensional thin films and superlattices grown using techniques such as pulsed laser deposition (PLD) often possess novel properties which differ from the bulk perovskite materials. The origins of these novel properties can be traced to interfacial chemical intermixing, electronic reconstruction, strain as well as defect formation, which cause significant changes in the electronic structures. Therefore, it is crucially important to investigate the atomic and electronic structures of the functional materials in order to understand the correlation between microstructures and physical properties. Chemically-sensitive Z-contrast imaging and bonding-sensitive electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) in aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopes (STEM) can directly characterize the local structure, strain, composition and bonding on the atomic scale. Determination of the atomic and electronic structures of the interfaces and defects in the thin films can then be correlated with the magnetic and transport properties. Therefore, the understanding of the structure-property relationship for several different systems of perovskite oxide thin films and superlattices were developed on the atomic scale. Multifunctional superlattices composed of ferromagnetic (FM) La(0.7)Sr(0.3)MnO3 (LSMO) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) La(0.7)Sr(0.3)FeO3 (LSFO) have potential applications for next generation data storage and logic devices. Defect formation, driven by strain relaxation in the LSMO/LSFO superlattices can modify not only the structure and surface sharpness, but also the functional properties of the superlattice. Stacking faults were found as one efficient way of strain relaxation while maintaining robust antiferromagnetic properties for a thin [3LSMO][6LSFO] superlattice (repeating motif composed of 3 unit-cell LSMO sublayer and 6 unit-cell LSFO sublayer). On the other hand, for a fully strained [3LSMO][6LSFO], large inter-diffusion across the interface between the LSMO and LSFO layers was detected in EELS line scans, resulting in deteriorated AFM properties. When a [6LSMO][6LSFO] superlattice with one micron thickness, a high density of nanoflowers and cracks/pinholes were observed to result from strain relaxation. The formation of these nanoflowers and cracks/pinholes was suppressed by increasing the growth rate and thereby reducing the growth time and overall thermal treatment of the sample. Strain relaxation was shown to be directly related to the growth conditions and have a large effect on both the structure and functional properties of the superlattices. A series of superlattices composed of non-magnetic La(0.5)Sr(0.5)TiO3 (LSTO) and ferromagnetic LSMO were grown on single crystal oxide substrates with different amounts of misfit strain. No significant electronic structure changes along the interfaces was observed in this series of superlattices as revealed by atomic resolution EELS. In comparison, charge transfer effect was reported for the LSMO/STO superlattices and was shown to cause an ultrathin magnetic dead layer along the interfaces. Thus, compared with the LSMO/STO superlattice, composition tuning of the sublayers was proven to be efficient in controlling the interfacial charge transfer effects in a superlattice. In addition, tetragonal distortion was found to reduce the ferromagnetic ordering, decrease the Tc, increase the resistivity, and even lead to metal-insulator transitions of the superlattices. The strain relaxation defects such as dislocations and low angle grain boundaries serve as important pinning sites for magnetic domains, leading to enhanced coercive field strength. In order to determine the properties of an intermixed interface layer, we have performed a detailed study of the solid solution between LSMO and LSFO, i.e. La(0.7)Sr(0.3)Mn(0.5)Fe(0.5)O3 (LSMFO). A large target-substrate distance during the PLD growth led to cation segregation in the LSMFO film. Cation segregation could cause the formation of diverse local magnetic ordering and B site valence states due to the different local stoichiometry and coordination environment. For the cation segregated LSFMO films, robust ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic coupling was observed at 150K and room temperature. Decreasing the target-substrate distance resulted to a homogeneous cation distribution in the film, without any ferromagnetic ordering as expected. This result suggests the important role of target-substrate distance and the kinetic energy of the plume species on the crystalline quality and functional properties of perovskite oxide thin films. La(x)Sr(1-x)TiO3 possesses a wide range of functional properties which make it an attractive candidate material for applications such as the conductive buffer for high temperature superconductor growth, transparent conductors, and anodes in solid oxide fuel cells. La(0.5)Sr(0.5)TiO3 thin films were grown using PLD and the resistivity was found to be highly dependent on the O2 background pressure used in the deposition. However, a thin film which was deposited as a single phase film was transformed into a semi-ordered superlattice with TiO2 rich stacking faults and distorted lattices upon exposure to high oxygen pressure (~200torr) during the cooling procedure after deposition. This phase change stabilized Ti4+ ions and dramatically increased the resistivity of the film. In addition, a two dimensional free electron gas could be constructed by confining a few unit cells of La doped STO with STO spacer layers. Our study showed that charge transfer over a distance of ~2 u.c. was present in Sr(0.75)La(0.25)TiO3/STO superlattices. This thickness defined the lower limit for the thickness of the STO spacers in order to confine the charge carriers into two dimensions; secondly, the La dopants were shown to be less localized in thicker superlattice (~100nm) due to interdiffusion upon extended thermal exposure. This information provided important feedback on the fabrication and utilization of this material.In conclusion, several perovskite thin film systems with fascinating properties have been explored in this thesis. Strain states and strain relaxations, defect formation, interfacial atomic mixing, charge transfer, and cation segregation were shown to have profound effect on the functional properties of complex oxide thin film systems. Atomic resolution Z-contrast imaging and EELS provide extremely useful information on the structural and electronic structure variations, which enable us to see the whole picture of growth, structure and properties' interactions.
Author: R. K. Singh Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 5
Book Description
The research plan was divided into three tasks: (a) growth of oxide heterostructures for interface engineering using standard thin film deposition techniques, (b) atomic level characterization of oxide heterostructure using such techniques as STEM-2 combined with AFM/STM and conventional high-resolution microscopy (HRTEM), and (c) property measurements of aspects important to oxide heterostructures using standard characterization methods, including dielectric properties and dynamic cathodoluminescence measurements. Each of these topics were further classified on the basis of type of oxide heterostructure. Type I oxide heterostructures consisted of active dielectric layers, including the materials Ba{sub x}Sr{sub 1-x}TiO{sub 3} (BST), Y{sub 2}O{sub 3} and ZrO{sub 2}. Type II heterostructures consisted of ferroelectric active layers such as lanthanum manganate and Type III heterostructures consist of phosphor oxide active layers such as Eu-doped Y{sub 2}O{sub 3}.
Author: Gustaaf van Tendeloo Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 3527317066 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 1484
Book Description
This completely revised successor to the Handbook of Microscopy supplies in-depth coverage of all imaging technologies from the optical to the electron and scanning techniques. Adopting a twofold approach, the book firstly presents the various technologies as such, before going on to cover the materials class by class, analyzing how the different imaging methods can be successfully applied. It covers the latest developments in techniques, such as in-situ TEM, 3D imaging in TEM and SEM, as well as a broad range of material types, including metals, alloys, ceramics, polymers, semiconductors, minerals, quasicrystals, amorphous solids, among others. The volumes are divided between methods and applications, making this both a reliable reference and handbook for chemists, physicists, biologists, materials scientists and engineers, as well as graduate students and their lecturers.
Author: Chiwoo Park Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030728226 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 376
Book Description
This book combines two distinctive topics: data science/image analysis and materials science. The purpose of this book is to show what type of nano material problems can be better solved by which set of data science methods. The majority of material science research is thus far carried out by domain-specific experts in material engineering, chemistry/chemical engineering, and mechanical & aerospace engineering. The book could benefit materials scientists and manufacturing engineers who were not exposed to systematic data science training while in schools, or data scientists in computer science or statistics disciplines who want to work on material image problems or contribute to materials discovery and optimization. This book provides in-depth discussions of how data science and operations research methods can help and improve nano image analysis, automating the otherwise manual and time-consuming operations for material engineering and enhancing decision making for nano material exploration. A broad set of data science methods are covered, including the representations of images, shape analysis, image pattern analysis, and analysis of streaming images, change points detection, graphical methods, and real-time dynamic modeling and object tracking. The data science methods are described in the context of nano image applications, with specific material science case studies.
Author: Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry ISBN: Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 498
Book Description
The surface science of metal oxides is studied using a variety of experimental and theoretical techniques, allowing the geometry, electronic structure, dynamics and the behaviour of the metal oxide-metal interface to be explored. Faraday Discussions documents a long-established series of Faraday Discussion meetings which provide a unique international forum for the exchange of views and newly acquired results in developing areas of physical chemistry, biophysical chemistry and chemical physics. The papers presented are published in the Faraday Discussion volume together with a record of the discussion contributions made at the meeting. Faraday Discussions therefore provide an important record of current international knowledge and views in the field concerned.
Author: Hao Yang
Author: Hao Yang
Author: Meng Gu
Author: R. K. Singh
Author: Amish B. Shah
Author: Gustaaf van Tendeloo
Author: Chiwoo Park
Author: 
Author: 
Author: 
Author: