• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Scanning transmission electron microscopy strain measurement from millisecond frames of a direct electron charge coupled device
  • Contributor: Müller-Caspary, Knut [Author]; Ryll, Henning [Author]; Ordavo, Ivan [Author]; Ihle, Sebastian [Author]; Str¨uder, Lothar [Author]; Volz, Kerstin [Author]; Zweck, Josef [Author]; Soltau, Heike [Author]; Rosenauer, Andreas [Author]
  • imprint: American Inst. of Physics, 2012
  • Published in: Applied physics letters 101, 212110 (2012). doi:10.1063/1.4767655
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4767655
  • ISSN: 0003-6951
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  • Description: A high-speed direct electron detection system is introduced to the field of transmission electron microscopy and applied to strain measurements in semiconductor nanostructures. In particular, a focused electron probe with a diameter of 0.5 nm was scanned over a fourfold quantum layer stack with alternating compressive and tensile strain and diffracted discs have been recorded on a scintillator-free direct electron detector with a frame time of 1 ms. We show that the applied algorithms can accurately detect Bragg beam positions despite a significant point spread each 300 kV electron causes during detection on the scintillator-free camera. For millisecond exposures, we find that strain can be measured with a precision of 1.3 × 10−3, enabling, e.g., strain mapping in a 100×100 nm2 region with 0.5 nm resolution in 40 s. .
  • Access State: Open Access