NANOSTRUCTURES

Revealing nanoparticles, nanowires and multilayer texture at nm level helps to understand and predict their (electrical, transport, optical) properties. Orientation and phase mapping with ASTAR sheds light to their texture and phases, while 3D electron diffraction tomography may reveal their detailed crystal structure. Strain maps in multilayers help monitor structural properties.
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ASTAR –NANOSTRUCTURES
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3D ELECTRON DIFFRACTION TOMOGRAPHY –NANOSTRUCTURES
Birkel, C. S., et al. “Solution Synthesis of a New Thermoelectric Zn1+ XSb Nanophase and Its Structure Determination Using Automated Electron Diffraction Tomography.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 132, no. 28, 2010, pp.9881–89,doi: 10.1021/ja1035122.
Sedlmaier, S. J., et al. “SrP3N5O: A Highly Condensed Layer Phosphate Structure Solved from a Nanocrystal by Automated Electron Diffraction Tomography.” Chemistry – A European Journal, vol. 17, no. 40, 2011, pp. 11258–65, doi:10.1002/chem.201101545.
Mugnaioli, E., et al. “Ba6P12N17O9Br3- A Column-Type Phosphate Structure Solved from Single-Nanocrystal Data Obtained by Automated Electron Diffraction Tomography.” European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, no. 1, 2012, pp. 121–25, doi:10.1002/ejic.201101149.
Hoshyargar, F., et al. “Structure Analysis on the Nanoscale: Closed WS2 Nanoboxes through a Cascade of Topo- and Epitactic Processes.” CrystEngComm, vol. 16, no. 23,2014,pp.5087–92,doi:10.1039/c4ce00326h.
Tahir, M. N., et al. “Hierachical Ni@Fe2O3 Superparticles through Epitaxial Growth of γ-Fe2O3 Nanorods on: In Situ Formed Ni Nanoplates.” Nanoscale, vol. 8, no. 18, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016, pp. 9548–55, doi:10.1039/c6nr00065g.
David, J., et al. “Crystal Phases in Hybrid Metal-Semiconductor Nanowire Devices.” Nano Letters, vol. 17, no. 4, 2017, pp. 2336–41, doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b05223.
Mugnaioli, E., et al. “Ab Initio Structure Determination of Cu2- XTe Plasmonic Nanocrystals by Precession-Assisted Electron Diffraction Tomography and HAADF-STEM Imaging.” Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 57, no. 16, American Chemical Society, 2018, pp. 10241–48, doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b01445.
Kaiukov, R., et al. “Cs3Cu4In2Cl13 Nanocrystals: A Perovskite-Related Structure with Inorganic Clusters at A Sites.” Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 59, no. 1, 2020, pp. 548–54,doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b02834.