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Fabrication of Atom Probe Tomography Specimens from Nanoparticles Using a Fusible Bi-In-Sn Alloy as an Embedding
Se-Ho Kim1, Ji Yeong Lee2, Jae-Pyoung Ahn2
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering,Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST),291 Daehak-ro,Yuseong-gu,Daejeon 34141,Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
We propose a new method for preparing atom probe tomography specimens from nanoparticles using a fusible bismuth-indium-tin alloy as an embedding medium. Iron nanoparticles synthesized by the sodium borohydride reduction method were chosen as a model system. The as-synthesized iron nanoparticles were embedded within the fusible alloy using focused ion beam milling and ion-milled to needle-shaped atom probe specimens under cryogenic conditions. An atom probe analysis revealed boron atoms in a detected iron nanoparticle, indicating that boron from the sodium borohydride reductant was incorporated into the nanoparticle during its synthesis.
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