Three-dimensional coordinates of individual atoms in materials revealed by electron tomography

Cited 135 time in webofscience Cited 0 time in scopus
  • Hit : 381
  • Download : 0
Crystallography, the primary method for determining the 3D atomic positions in crystals, has been fundamental to the development of many fields of science(1). However, the atomic positions obtained from crystallography represent a global average of many unit cells in a crystal(1,2). Here, we report, for the first time, the determination of the 3D coordinates of thousands of individual atoms and a point defect in a material by electron tomography with a precision of similar to 19 pm, where the crystallinity of the material is not assumed. From the coordinates of these individual atoms, we measure the atomic displacement field and the full strain tensor with a 3D resolution of similar to 1 nm(3) and a precision of similar to 10(-3), which are further verifiedby density functional theory calculations and molecular dynamics simulations. The ability to precisely localize the 3D coordinates of individual atoms in materials without assuming crystallinity is expected to find important applications in materials science, nanoscience, physics, chemistry and biology.
Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
Issue Date
2015-11
Language
English
Article Type
Article
Citation

NATURE MATERIALS, v.14, no.11, pp.1099 - 1099

ISSN
1476-1122
DOI
10.1038/NMAT4426
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10203/246190
Appears in Collection
PH-Journal Papers(저널논문)
Files in This Item
There are no files associated with this item.
This item is cited by other documents in WoS
⊙ Detail Information in WoSⓡ Click to see webofscience_button
⊙ Cited 135 items in WoS Click to see citing articles in records_button

qr_code

  • mendeley

    citeulike


rss_1.0 rss_2.0 atom_1.0