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MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS
卷 28, 期 4, 页码 1188-1197出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927621000465
关键词
atom probe tomography; micromanipulation; nanoparticles; pick and place
资金
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG - German Research Foundation) [FE 1593/2-1]
- DFG [GRK 1896]
This work presents a method for lifting out single nanoparticles in the scanning electron microscope, providing compositional and structural insights for nanoparticles and demonstrating segregation in nanorods. The approach allows for analysis of unsupported nanoparticles and produces well-defined structured samples.
The ability to analyze nanoparticles in the atom probe has often been limited by the complexity of the sample preparation. In this work, we present a method to lift-out single nanoparticles in the scanning electron microscope. First, nanoparticles are dispersed on a lacey carbon grid, then positioned on a sharp substrate tip and coated on all sides with a metallic matrix by physical vapor deposition. Compositional and structural insights are provided for spherical gold nanoparticles and a segregation of silver and copper in silver copper oxide nanorods is shown in 3D atom maps. Using the standard atom probe reconstruction algorithm, data quality is limited by typical standard reconstruction artifacts for heterogeneous specimens (trajectory aberrations) and the choice of suitable coatings for the particles. This approach can be applied to various unsupported free-standing nanoparticles, enables preselection of particles via correlative techniques, and reliably produces well-defined structured samples. The only prerequisite is that the nanoparticles must be large enough to be manipulated, which was done for sizes down to similar to 50 nm.
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