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MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS
Volume 6, Issue 5, Pages 437-444Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/S100050010051
Keywords
data analysis; heterophase interface; MgO; Cu; three-dimensional atom-probe; segregation; Gibbsian interfacial excess; proxigram; ceramic/metal interfaces
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The three-dimensional (3D) atom-probe technique produces a reconstruction of the elemental chemical identities and three-dimensional positions of atoms field evaporated from a sharply pointed metal specimen, with a local radius of curvature of less than 50 nm. The number of atoms collected can be on the order of one million, representing an analysis volume of approximately 20 nm x 20 nm x 200 nm (80,000 nm(3)). This large amount of data allows for the identification of microstructural features in a sample, such as grain or heterophase boundaries, if the feature density is large enough. Correlation of the measured atomic positions with these identified features results in an atom-by-atom description of the chemical environment of crystallographic defects. This article outlines a data compilation technique for the generation of composition profiles in the vicinity of interfaces in a geometrically independent way. This approach is applied to quantitative determination of interfacial segregation of silver at a MgO/Cu(Ag) heterophase interface.
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