Wide field of view crystal orientation mapping of layered materials.

Layered materials (LMs) are at the centre of an ever increasing research effort due to their potential use in a variety of applications. The presence of imperfections, such as bi- or multilayer areas, holes, grain boundaries, isotropic and anisotropic deformations, etc. are detrimental for most (opto)electronic applications. Here, we present a set-up able to transform a conventional scanning electron microscope into a tool for structural analysis of a wide range of LMs. An hybrid pixel electron detector below the sample makes it possible to record two dimensional (2d) diffraction patterns for every probe position on the sample surface (2d), in transmission mode, thus performing a 2d+2d=4d STEM (scanning transmission electron microscopy) analysis. This offers a field of view up to 2 mm2, while providing spatial resolution in the nm range, enabling the collection of statistical data on grain size, relative orientation angle, bilayer stacking, strain, etc. which can be mined through automated open-source data analysis software. We demonstrate this approach by analyzing a variety of LMs, such as mono- and multi-layer graphene, graphene oxide and MoS2, showing the ability of this method to characterize them in the tens of nm to mm scale. This wide field of view range and the resulting statistical information are key for large scale applications of LMs.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  arXiv: Applied Physics

• Publication date

  2020-11-03

• Fields of study

  Materials Science, Physics

• Identifiers
  arXiv 2011.01875
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