Determination of Elemental Ratio in an Atomic Column by Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy

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• 作者：Mitsutaka Haruta ; Yoshiteru Hosaka ; Noriya Ichikawa ; Takashi Saito ; Yuichi Shimakawa ; Hiroki Kurata
• 刊名：ACS Nano
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：July 26, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：10
• 期：7
• 页码：6680-6684
• 全文大小：293K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1936-086X

文摘

Atomic-resolution quantification of the elemental ratio of Fe to Mn at the octahedral and tetrahedral sites in brownmillerite Ca₂Fe_1.07Mn_0.93O₅ was determined using electron energy-loss spectroscopy combined with aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy. The combined techniques revealed that oversampling of the spectral imaging data yielded a spatially resolved area that very nearly reflects atomic resolution (∼1.2 Å radius). The average experimental ratios of Fe to Mn within this region were 17.5:82.5 for the octahedral sites and 81.6:18.4 for the tetrahedral sites. The elemental ratio in an octahedral atomic column was successfully extracted by estimating the mixing of signals from nearest neighbor columns. The results indicated that the ratio of Fe to Mn was 13:87 at the octahedral site, which is in good agreement with the results of neutron diffraction analysis. In addition, the uncertainty of experimental results obtained by using an average 1.2 Å radius was less than 10% at octahedral sites, depending on the sample thickness. In contrast, the experimental error due to dechanneling of incident electrons was larger at the tetrahedral sites. This experimental procedure has wide application for determining the spatially resolved composition ratio of elements in perovskite-like compounds.