Quantitative comparison of bright field and annular bright field imaging modes for characterization of oxygen octahedral tilts

Kim, Young-Min; Pennycook, Stephen J.; Borisevich, Albina Y.

doi:10.1016/j.ultramic.2017.04.020

Title: Quantitative comparison of bright field and annular bright field imaging modes for characterization of oxygen octahedral tilts

Journal Article · 29 April 2017 · Ultramicroscopy

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2017.04.020 · OSTI ID:1394370

Kim, Young-Min ^[1]; Pennycook, Stephen J. ^[2]; Borisevich, Albina Y. ^[3]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon (Korea, Republic of); Inst. for Basic Science (IBS), Suwon (Korea, Republic of)
National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Octahedral tilt behavior is increasingly recognized as an important contributing factor to the physical behavior of perovskite oxide materials and especially their interfaces, necessitating the development of high-resolution methods of tilt mapping. There are currently two major approaches for quantitative imaging of tilts in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), bright field (BF) and annular bright field (ABF). In this study, we show that BF STEM can be reliably used for measurements of oxygen octahedral tilts. While optimal conditions for BF imaging are more restricted with respect to sample thickness and defocus, we find that BF imaging with an aberration-corrected microscope with the accelerating voltage of 300 kV gives us the most accurate quantitative measurement of the oxygen column positions. Using the tilted perovskite structure of BiFeO₃ (BFO) as our test sample, we simulate BF and ABF images in a wide range of conditions, identifying the optimal imaging conditions for each mode. Finally, we show that unlike ABF imaging, BF imaging remains directly quantitatively interpretable for a wide range of the specimen mistilt, suggesting that it should be preferable to the ABF STEM imaging for quantitative structure determination.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Inst. for Basic Science (Korea, Republic of); National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; IBS-R011-D1; NRF-2015M3D1A1070672

OSTI ID:: 1394370

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1396515

Journal Information:: Ultramicroscopy, Vol. 181; ISSN 0304-3991

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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