Nanostructured metals possess various excellent properties and offer the potential for a wide range of applications.Improvements in the properties and performance of nanostructured metal components motivate a complete...Nanostructured metals possess various excellent properties and offer the potential for a wide range of applications.Improvements in the properties and performance of nanostructured metal components motivate a complete characterization of the microstructures and crystallographic orientations of nanostructured metals with nanoscale spatial resolution.Two well developed orientation mapping techniques for such characterization are electron backscatter diffraction(EBSD)in the scanning electron microscope and precession electron diffraction(PED)using diffraction spots in the transmission electron microscope.However,these methods can only characterize the structure in two dimensions.It is still a great challenge to characterize grains in three dimensions,i.e.from the interior of the nanostructured metals.Recently,three-dimensional orientation mapping in the transmission electron microscope(3 D-OMi TEM)was developed and further improvements of this technique are introduced in this paper.Utilization of these orientation mapping techniques for structural and orientational characterizations are demonstrated by examples of surface-deformed metals with gradient nanostructures,and a sputtered gold film of nano-islands containing nanograins.The merits and challenges of each of these techniques are discussed and suggestions for further developments are proposed.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFB0700400)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51327805,51971045,51971043and 51671039)the support of the“111 Project”(B16007)by the Ministry of Education and the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs,China.
文摘Nanostructured metals possess various excellent properties and offer the potential for a wide range of applications.Improvements in the properties and performance of nanostructured metal components motivate a complete characterization of the microstructures and crystallographic orientations of nanostructured metals with nanoscale spatial resolution.Two well developed orientation mapping techniques for such characterization are electron backscatter diffraction(EBSD)in the scanning electron microscope and precession electron diffraction(PED)using diffraction spots in the transmission electron microscope.However,these methods can only characterize the structure in two dimensions.It is still a great challenge to characterize grains in three dimensions,i.e.from the interior of the nanostructured metals.Recently,three-dimensional orientation mapping in the transmission electron microscope(3 D-OMi TEM)was developed and further improvements of this technique are introduced in this paper.Utilization of these orientation mapping techniques for structural and orientational characterizations are demonstrated by examples of surface-deformed metals with gradient nanostructures,and a sputtered gold film of nano-islands containing nanograins.The merits and challenges of each of these techniques are discussed and suggestions for further developments are proposed.
