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2007 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit

November 26 - 30, 2007  | Boston
Meeting Chairs:
 Duane Dimos, Mary Galvin, David Mooney, Konrad Samwer

Symposium C : Quantitative Electron Microscopy for Materials Science

2007-11-26   Show All Abstracts

Symposium Organizers

Etienne Snoeck CEMES-CNRS
Rafal Dunin-Borkowski Technical University of Denmark
Johan Verbeeck University of Antwerp
Ulrich Dahmen Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
C1: Mapping of Electronic States and Local Bonding and Elemental Mapping I
Session Chairs
G. Botton
Uli Dahmen
Rafal Dunin-Borkowski
J. Silcox
Etienne Snoeck
Jo Verbeeck
Monday PM, November 26, 2007
Back Bay D (Sheraton)

9:30 AM - C1:Analytical I
Opening Remarks by Organizers

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9:45 AM - **C1.1
Probing the Chemistry and Bonding of Nanoscale Materials with High-Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy.

Gianluigi Botton 1
1 Materials Science and Engineering, BIMR, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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10:15 AM - **C1.2
Semiconductor Band-gap Measurements Using Electron Energy-loss Spectroscopy.

Peter vanAken 1 , Wilfried Sigle 1 , Lin Gu 1 , Vesna Srot 1 , Christoph Koch 1
1 Stuttgart Center for Electron Microscopy, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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10:45 AM - C1.3
The Electronic Structure of the 2D Spin Gap System SrCu2(BO3)2 : EELS Experiments and Ab initio Band Structure Calculations.

Guillaume Radtke 1 , Andres Saul 2
1 Laboratoire TECSEN - CNRS, Université Paul Cézanne Aix Marseille III, Marseille France, 2 Centre de Recherche en Matière Condensée et Nanosciences - CNRS, Campus de Luminy, Marseille France

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11:00 AM - *
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11:30 AM - **C1.4
Chemical Mapping on a Nanometer Length Scale.

Werner Grogger 1 , Bernhard Schaffer 1 , Gerald Kothleitner 1 , Ferdinand Hofer 1
1 FELMI, Graz University of Technology, Graz Austria

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12:00 PM - C1.5
EELS Quantitative Analysis of AlGaN and GaN Nanowires Grown by Ni Promoted MBE on Sapphire Substrate.

Leonardo Lari 1 , Robert Murray 1 , Mhairi Gass 2 , Timothy Bullough 1 , Paul Chalker 1 , Caroline Chreze 3 , Lutz Geelhaar 3 , Henning Riechert 3
1 Engineering, University of Liverpool, Liverpool United Kingdom, 2 , SuperSTEM Laboratory, STFC Daresbury, WA4 4AD, Daresbury United Kingdom, 3 , Qimonda D-81730, Munich and NaMLab, D-01099 , Dresden Germany

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12:15 PM - C1.6
HRTEM and STEM-EELS Studies of Ba1-xSrxTiO3 Multilayered Films.

David McComb 1 , Yiqian Wang 1 , James Perkins 1 , Peter Petrov 1 , Neil Alford 1
1 Materials and London Centre for Nanotechnology, Imperial College London, London United Kingdom

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12:30 PM - C1.7
Quantification Of EELS Spectra: Converting Spectra To Numbers.

Jo Verbeeck 1 , Giovanni Bertoni 1 , Sandra Van Aert 1
1 Physics, EMAT, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium

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C2: In-situ Measurements of Properties, Reaction Rates and Mechanisms
Session Chairs
Uli Dahmen
E. Stach
Monday PM, November 26, 2007
Back Bay D (Sheraton)

2:30 PM - **C2.1
Imaging Individual Organic Molecules by High-contrast Microscopy.

Kazu Suenaga 1
1 , AIST, Tsukuba Japan

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3:00 PM - **C2.2
Quantifying Nucleation Processes During the Growth of Semiconducting Nanowires and Carbon Nanotubes.

Eric Stach 1 , Bong Joong Kim 1 , Jerry Tersoff 2 , Sueng Min Kim 1 , Suneel Kodambaka 3 2 , Dmitri Zakharov 1 , Benji Maruyama 4 , Frances Ross 2
1 School of Materials Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, 2 , IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States, 3 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, 4 Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Wright Patterson Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, United States

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3:30 PM - C2.3
Fractal Aspects Related to the Oxidation of Cu(111).

Guangwen Zhou 1 , Xidong Chen 2 3 , Judith Yang 4
1 Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York, United States, 2 Department of Science and Mathematics, Cedarville University, Cedarville, Ohio, United States, 3 Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, United States, 4 Mechanical Engineering and Matierials Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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3:45 PM - C2.4
Transient Cellular Structure is Revealed using Nanosecond in situ TEM.

Judy Kim 1 2 , Thomas LaGrange 1 , Bryan Reed 1 , Nigel Browning 1 2 , Geoffrey Campbell 1
1 Chemistry, Materials, & Life Sciences, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States, 2 Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, Univ. of California, Davis, California, United States

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4:30 PM - C2.5
In situ TEM Study of Site-specific Deposition of Au and Ag on Reconstructed m-plane Sapphire.

Joysurya Basu 1 , Divakar Ramachandran 3 , N. Ravishankar 4 , C. Carter 1
1 Chemical, Materials Science & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States, 3 Metallurgy & Materials Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam India, 4 Materials Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore India

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4:45 PM - C2.6
In-situ Studies of Martensitic Phase Transformations using the Dynamic Transmission Electron Microscope.

Thomas LaGrange 1 , Geoffery Campbell 1 , Patrice Turchi 1 , Bryan Reed 1 , Nigel Browning 1 2 , Judy Kim 1 , Mitra Taheri 1 , J. Brad Pesavento 1 , Wayne King 1
1 Chemistry Materaials and Life Sciences, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States, 2 Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States

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5:00 PM - C2.7
The Dynamic TEM for Controlled Ultrafast Studies of the Structural Evolution of Nanoscale Electronic and Catalytic Materials.

Mitra Taheri 1 , Bryan Reed 1 , Thomas LaGrange 1 , Nigel Browning 1 2
1 Chemistry, Materials & Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States, 2 Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, United States

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5:15 PM - C2.8
In-situ Observation of Giant Diffusivity Along Dislocation Cores.

Marc Legros 1
1 , CEMES-CNRS, Toulouse France

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5:30 PM - C2.9
Measuring the Mechanical Response of Individual Nano Structures through in situ, Quantitative TEM Deformation Tests.

Zhiwei Shan 1 2 , Andy Minor 2 , S.A. Syed Asif 1 , Oden Warren 1
1 R&D, Hysitron Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 2 National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States

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5:45 PM - C2.10
In situ TEM Observation of Brownian Motion of Au Nanocrystals in Liquid Thin Films.

H. Zheng 1 2 3 , S. Claridge 3 , A. Minor 1 2 , P. Alivisatos 1 2 3 , U. Dahmen 1 2
1 National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States, 2 Materials Sciences Divsion, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States, 3 Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States

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C3: Poster Session: Analytical TEM
Session Chairs
Tuesday AM, November 27, 2007
Exhibition Hall D (Hynes)

9:00 PM - C3.1
Verifying the Presence of Low Levels of Neptunium in a Uranium Matrix with Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy.

Edgar Buck 1 , Richard Wittman 1
1 , Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States

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9:00 PM - C3.2
Radiolytic Purification of CaO by Electron Beams.

Andre Mkhoyan 1 , John Silcox 1 , Michael McGuire 2 , Francis Disalvo 3
1 Applied Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States, 2 Physics Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States, 3 Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States

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9:00 PM - C3.3
Segregation versus Precipitate Chemistry: Activities at Work in Polycrystalline Ceramics.

Ceren Ozaydin 1 , Oguz Armagan 1 , Aysun Karaoglu 1 , Mehmet Gulgun 1 , Saso Sturm 2 , Vesna Srot 3 , Manfred Ruhle 3 , Peter van Aken 3
1 FENS, Sabanci University, Istanbul Turkey, 2 Department for Nanostructured Materials, Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana Slovenia, 3 StEM, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart Germany

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9:00 PM - C3.4
Quantitative Analysis of Nano-Particulates in Fully Radioactive Hanford Tank Sludges

Edgar Buck 1 , Kathryn Draper 1 , Richard Wittman 1 , Ken Czerwinski 2
1 , Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States, 2 , University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

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9:00 PM - C3.5
The Estimation of Magnetic Energy Distribution in Polycrystalline Sputtered CoCrTa Magnetic Thin Films from EFTEM Data.

Jafar Al-Sharab 1 , James Wittig 2 , James Bentley 3 , Neal Evans 3
1 Ceramic and Material Science, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States, 2 Electrical and Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 3 Materials Science and Engineering, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States

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9:00 PM - C3.6
Origin of High Specific Capacity in Li1.2Mn0.4Fe0.4O2 Positive Electrode Materials for Lithium-ion Batteries Studies by STEM-EELS, HRTEM and NBED.

Jun Kikkawa 1 , Tomoki Akita 1 , Mitsuharu Tabuchi 1 , Masahiro Shikano 1 , Kuniaki Tatsumi 1 , Masanori Kohyama 1
1 Research Institute for Ubiquitous Energy Devices, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ikeda, Osaka, Japan

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9:00 PM - C3.7
The Determination of Optical Properties of Semiconductors Using EELS.

Michael Stoeger-Pollach 1 , Anita Laister 2 , Peter Schattschneider 2 1
1 Service Centre for TEM, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Vienna Austria, 2 Inst. of Solid State Physics, USTEM, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Vienna Austria

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9:00 PM - C3.8
Extending the Resolution Limits for Quantitative Electron Spectroscopic Imaging of Radiation-Sensitive Soft Materials.

Sergey Yakovlev 1 , Matthew Libera 1
1 CBME, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken , New Jersey, United States

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C4: Poster Session: SEM/LEEM I
Session Chairs
Tuesday AM, November 27, 2007
Exhibition Hall D (Hynes)

9:00 PM - C4.1
Quantitative, Local Measurements of Surface Adsorbate Concentrations using Low-energy Electron Microscopy.

Kevin McCarty 1 , Juan de la Figuera 2 , Norman Bartelt 1
1 , Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, United States, 2 , Instituto de Química-Física “Rocasolano”, CSIC, Madrid Spain

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9:00 PM - C4.2
Engineering a Quantitative Dopant Profiling Technique in the SEM.

Augustus Chee 1 , Conny Rodenburg 2 , Colin Humphreys 1
1 Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge United Kingdom, 2 Department of Engineering Materials, University of Sheffield, Sheffield United Kingdom

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9:00 PM - C4.4
Digital Image Processing and MEB (BSE) Techniques in the Identification and Quantification of Minerals Phases Present in Cement and Concrete.

Nicanor Prendes 1 , Esperanza Menendez 2
1 Petrology & Mineralogy, CEDEX -- Ministerio Fomento, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2 Materials & Construction, Eduardo Torroja Institute for Construccion Science, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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9:00 PM - C4:SEM/LEEM
C4.3 Transferred to C15.3

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C5: Poster Session: In-situ
Session Chairs
Uli Dahmen
E. Stach
Tuesday AM, November 27, 2007
Exhibition Hall D (Hynes)

9:00 PM - C5.1
In situ TEM Study on the Formation Process of Iron Silicide Nanoparticles on Si Substrate.

Jonghan Won 1 , Andras Kovacs 1 , Manabu Ishimaru 1 , Yoshihiko Hirotsu 1
1 , The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR), Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan

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9:00 PM - C5.2
Overcoming Challenges in Materials Science: Performing in-situ Fatigue Testing in the Large Chamber Scanning Electron Microscope.

Martin Klein 1
1 , VisiTec Microtechnik, Grevesmuehlen, M-VP, Germany

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