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Kelly TF, Gorman BP, Ringer SP. Introduction to Atomic-Scale Tomography. MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY SOCIETY OF AMERICA, MICROBEAM ANALYSIS SOCIETY, MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 2023; 29:589-590. [PMID: 37613014 DOI: 10.1093/micmic/ozad067.284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/25/2023]
Affiliation(s)
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- Colorado School of Mines, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Golden, CO, United States
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- School of Aerospace, Mechanical & Mechatronic Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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Mayer J, Barthel J, Vayyala A, Dunin-Borkowski R, Bischoff M, van Leeuwen H, Kujawa S, Bunton J, Lenz D, Kelly TF. The TOMO Project - Integrating a Fully Functional Atom Probe in an Aberration-Corrected TEM. MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY SOCIETY OF AMERICA, MICROBEAM ANALYSIS SOCIETY, MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 2023; 29:593-594. [PMID: 37613194 DOI: 10.1093/micmic/ozad067.286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/25/2023]
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- Joachim Mayer
- Ernst Ruska-Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
- Central Facility for Electron Microscopy, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- Ernst Ruska-Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
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- Ernst Ruska-Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
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- CAMECA Instruments, Inc., Madison, WI, United States
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- CAMECA Instruments, Inc., Madison, WI, United States
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Qiu S, Garg V, Zhang S, Chen Y, Li J, Taylor A, Marceau RKW, Fu J. Graphene encapsulation enabled high-throughput atom probe tomography of liquid specimens. Ultramicroscopy 2020; 216:113036. [PMID: 32540722 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2020.113036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2019] [Revised: 05/11/2020] [Accepted: 05/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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A new method for imaging liquid specimens with atom probe tomography (APT) is proposed by introducing graphene encapsulation. By tuning the encapsulation speed and the number of encapsulations, controllable volumes of liquid can be encapsulated on a pre-sharpened specimen tip, with the end radius less than 75 nm to allow field ionization and evaporation. Encapsulation of liquid has been confirmed by using various characterization techniques, including electron microscopy and stimulated emission depletion microscopy. The graphene-encapsulated liquid specimen was then directly frozen at the cryogenic stage inside the atom probe instrument, followed by APT imaging in laser-pulsed mode. Using water as a test example, water-related ions have been identified in the acquired mass spectrum, which are spatially correlated to a reconstructed three-dimensional volume of water on top of the base specimen tip, as clearly revealed in the chemical maps. In addition, the proposed method has also been shown to produce multiple liquid specimens simultaneously on a pre-sharpened silicon micro-tip array for high-throughput APT imaging of liquid specimens. It is expected that the proposed lift-out-free method for preparing APT specimens in their hydrated state will open a new avenue for obtaining insights into various materials at atomic resolution.
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- Shi Qiu
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC3800, Australia
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC3800, Australia; IITB-Monash Research Academy, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC3800, Australia
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- Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy, Monash University, Clayton, VIC3800, Australia
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- Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC3800, Australia; Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC3800, Australia
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- Deakin University, Institute for Frontier Materials, Geelong, VIC3216, Australia
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- Deakin University, Institute for Frontier Materials, Geelong, VIC3216, Australia.
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC3800, Australia; ARC Centre of Excellence for Advanced Molecular Imaging, Monash University, Clayton, VIC3800, Australia.
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Reciprocal space tomography of 3D skyrmion lattice order in a chiral magnet. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:6386-6391. [PMID: 29866823 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1803367115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
It is commonly assumed that surfaces modify the properties of stable materials within the top few atomic layers of a bulk specimen only. Exploiting the polarization dependence of resonant elastic X-ray scattering to go beyond conventional diffraction and imaging techniques, we have determined the depth dependence of the full 3D spin structure of skyrmions-that is, topologically nontrivial whirls of the magnetization-below the surface of a bulk sample of Cu2OSeO3 We found that the skyrmions change exponentially from pure Néel- to pure Bloch-twisting over a distance of several hundred nanometers between the surface and the bulk, respectively. Though qualitatively consistent with theory, the strength of the Néel-twisting at the surface and the length scale of the variation observed experimentally exceed material-specific modeling substantially. In view of the exceptionally complete quantitative theoretical account of the magnetic rigidities and associated static and dynamic properties of skyrmions in Cu2OSeO3 and related materials, we conclude that subtle changes of the materials properties must exist at distances up to several hundred atomic layers into the bulk, which originate in the presence of the surface. This has far-reaching implications for the creation of skyrmions in surface-dominated systems and identifies, more generally, surface-induced gradual variations deep within a bulk material and their impact on tailored functionalities as an unchartered scientific territory.
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