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Quantitative microstructural and spectroscopic investigation of inversion domain boundaries in sintered zinc oxide ceramics doped with iron oxide

  • Thomas Walther EMAIL logo , Frank Wolf , Aleksander Recnik and Werner Mader
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International Journal of Materials Research
From the journal International Journal of Materials Research Volume 97 Issue 7

Abstract

It is known that sintering of powders of zinc oxide (ZnO) with small additions of iron oxide results in a ceramic with grains exhibiting a characteristic inversion domain micro-structure with planar inversion domain boundaries (IDBs) on two different habit planes. This study concentrates on a quantitative analysis, by a combination of different transmission electron microscopy methods, of those IDBs that are parallel to {0001} basal planes of the wurtzite structure of ZnO. Electron diffraction and dark-field imaging prove the nature of the inversion. High-resolution annular dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy allows measurement of the rigid body displacements across these IDBs and of the local lattice contraction related to the octahedral interstices that form the boundaries. Energy-selected imaging, electron energy-loss spectroscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy have been combined to determine the chemical composition of the IDBs quantitatively. It is thus shown unambiguously that every such fault consists of precisely one basal plane of octahedral interstices that are completely occupied by Fe3+ ions and that these FeO6 octahedra are themselves contracted along the <0001> direction. A local charge balance model explains the observations.

Keywords: Energy filtered transmission electron microscopy (EFTEM); Electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS); Annular dark-field imaging (Z-contrast); Zinc oxide (ZnO); Inversion domain

Dedicated to Professor Dr. Knut Urban on the occasion of his 65th birthday

Dr. Thomas Walther Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (caesar), Electron Microscopy, Ludwig-Erhard-Allee 2, D-53175 Bonn, Germany Tel.: +49 228 9656 198 Fax: +49 228 9656 116

Funding statement: Part of this research has been supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through its “Schwerpunktprogramm 1056: Strukturgradienten in Kristallen”

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Received: 2006-01-16
Accepted: 2006-04-03
Published Online: 2022-02-12

© 2006 Carl Hanser Verlag, München

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https://doi.org/10.1515/ijmr-2006-0149
Keywords for this article
Energy filtered transmission electron microscopy (EFTEM); Electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS); Annular dark-field imaging (Z-contrast); Zinc oxide (ZnO); Inversion domain

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  1. Frontmatter
  2. Editorial
  3. Professor Dr. Knut Urban 65 Years
  4. Basic
  5. Ordering processes and atomic defects in FeCo
  6. Atomic resolution electron tomography: a dream?
  7. Electron tomography of microelectronic device interconnects
  8. Aberration correction in electron microscopy
  9. Off-axis electron holography: Materials analysis at atomic resolution
  10. Determination of phases of complex scattering amplitudes and two-particle structure factors by investigating diffractograms of thin amorphous foils
  11. Prospects of the multislice method for CBED pattern calculation
  12. Electron energy-loss spectrometry for metals:some thoughts beyond microanalysis
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  15. Structural domains in antiferromagnetic LaFeO3 thin films
  16. Short-range order of liquid Ti72.3Fe27.7 investigated by a combination of neutron scattering and X-ray diffraction
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  24. Special planar defects in the structural complex metallic alloys of Al–Pd–Mn and Al–Ni–Rh
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