Measurement of atomic modulation direction using the azimuthal variation of first order Laue zone electron diffraction
arXiv:2209.06787 · doi:10.1093/micmic/ozad089
Abstract
We show that diffraction intensity into the First Order Laue Zone (FOLZ) of a crystal can have a strong azimuthal dependence, where this FOLZ ring appears solely because of unidirectional atom position modulation. Such a modulation was already known to cause the appearance of elliptical columns in atom resolution images, but we show that measurement of the angle via 4-dimensional Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (4DSTEM) is far more reliable and allows the measurement of the modulation direction with a precision of about 1° and an accuracy of about 3°. This method could be very powerful in characterising atomic structures in 3 dimensions by 4DSTEM, especially in cases where the structure deviates from that found in bulk crystals.
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