Absolute Structure from Scanning Electron Microscopy.


Journal

Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
04 Mar 2020
Historique:
received: 05 11 2019
accepted: 04 02 2020
entrez: 6 3 2020
pubmed: 7 3 2020
medline: 7 3 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The absence of centrosymmetry in chiral and polar crystal structures is the reason for many technical relevant physical properties like optical birefringence or ferroelectricity. Other chirality related properties that are actually intensively investigated are unconventional superconductivity or unusual magnetic ordering like skyrmions in materials with B20 structure. Despite the often close crystal structure - property relation, its detection is often challenging due to superposition of domains with different absolute structure e.g. chirality. Our investigations of high quality CoSi crystals with B20 structure by both complementary methods X- ray (volume sensitive) and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) (surface sensitive) results the consistent assignment of the chirality and reveal fundamental differences in their sensitivity to chirality. The analysis of the surface of a CoSi crystal with domains of different chirality show the high spatial resolution of this method which opens the possibility to analyze the chirality in microstructures of technical relevant materials like thin films and catalysts.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32132558
doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-59854-y
pii: 10.1038/s41598-020-59854-y
pmc: PMC7055257
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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IM

Pagination

4065

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Auteurs

Ulrich Burkhardt (U)

Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe, Dresden, Germany. Ulrich.Burkhardt@cpfs.mpg.de.

Horst Borrmann (H)

Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe, Dresden, Germany.

Philip Moll (P)

Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe, Dresden, Germany.
École polytechnique fédéral de Lausanne, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Marcus Schmidt (M)

Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe, Dresden, Germany.

Yuri Grin (Y)

Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe, Dresden, Germany.

Aimo Winkelmann (A)

Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V, Hannover, Germany.
Academic Centre for Materials and Nanotechnology, AGH University of Science and Technology, 30-059, Krakow, Poland.

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