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- Title
Improving Data Quality in Traditional Low‐Dose Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Imaging.
- Authors
Wang, Lingling; Jiang, Yilan; Zhou, Yi; Shi, Ruikai; Hosokawa, Fumio; Terasaki, Osamu; Zhang, Qing
- Abstract
It has become very important to study and find optimal conditions for imaging electron‐beam (e‐beam) sensitive materials in scanning transmission electron microscopy under low electron‐dose with high signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR). Convergence and collection angles and electron‐probe current are essential parameters. However, these parameters have rarely been discussed in a systematic way. In this paper, the illumination and collection conditions are optimized according to the resolution requirement of different materials by adjusting the condenser and intermediate lenses in a commercial transmission electron microscope. To demonstrate the significance of optimizing these parameters, two examples, zeolite MFI and metal–organic framework (MOF) MIL‐101, are taken among the sensitive materials, with the most important electron incidences along the [010] and <110> directions, respectively. High SNR atomic resolution images of MFI are obtained with e‐beam current as low as 0.50 pA, reaching information transfer for reflection up to 18 0 2 corresponding to d‐spacing of 0.11 nm, close to the resolution limit of 0.098 nm from resolvable diffraction limit. MOF MIL‐101 is characterized under an even lower e‐beam 0.2 pA to avoid severe beam damage. High‐quality annular dark and bright field images are obtained, which proves the wide applicability of this method on more e‐beam sensitive materials.
- Subjects
SCANNING transmission electron microscopy; TRANSMISSION electron microscopes; DATA quality; METAL-organic frameworks; ELECTRON energy loss spectroscopy; ELECTRON beams
- Publication
Particle & Particle Systems Characterization, 2023, Vol 40, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0934-0866
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ppsc.202200122