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ULTRAMICROSCOPY
Volume 120, Issue -, Pages 48-55Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2012.06.006
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STEM; Bright-field; Bloch-wave
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Simultaneous detection of both light and heavy atomic columns is theoretically and experimentally explored with spherical aberration (C-s)-corrected middle-angle bright-field (MABF) scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). Optimized MABF STEM visualizes both light O atomic columns and heavy Sr and Ti-O atomic columns for SrTiO3(001) as distinct bright spots and dark spots with characteristic bright rings, respectively, over practical ranges of the probe-forming lens defocus and sample thickness, although medium-heavy Ti-O atomic columns appear as blurred dark spots. The difference in contrast between heavy and light atomic columns is greater than that of annular BF STEM images. The formation of distinctive bright and dark spots is interpreted simply as the difference in the degrees of localization and inelastic absorption of channeling electrons in individual atomic columns by analyses of convergent wave fields inside the crystal in both real and reciprocal space. In addition, Bloch wave expansion of MABF STEM images suggests that bright rings are formed mainly by 2p-like convergent Bloch wave fields localized on heavy atomic columns. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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