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Cambridge University Press, Microscopy and Microanalysis, S2(7), p. 226-227, 2001

DOI: 10.1017/s1431927600027203

Elsevier, Ultramicroscopy, 2(93), p. 147-159, 2002

DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3991(02)00155-9

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Fluctuation microscopy in the STEM

Journal article published in 2002 by P. M. Voyles ORCID, D. A. Muller ORCID
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Abstract

Fluctuation microscopy is an electron microscopy technique sensitive to medium-range order (MRO) in disordered materials. It has been applied to study amorphous germanium and silicon, leading to the conclusion that these materials exhibit more MRO than the conventional continuous random network model for their structure.As originally proposed by Treacy and Gibson, fluctuation microscopy utilizes mesoscopicresolution (1.5 nm) hollow-cone dark field (HCDF) imaging in a TEM. The normalized variance of such images,is a measure of the magnitude of fluctuations in the diffracted intensity from mesoscopic volumes of the sample and is sensitive to MRO via the three- and four-body atom distribution functions. Studying V as a function of the diffraction vector magnitude k gives information about the degree of MRO and the internal structure of ordered regions. V as a function of the inverse resolution Q gives information about the characteristic MRO length scale.