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Shuoyuan Huang1, Paul M Voyles1
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
Abstract:
Electron correlation microscopy (ECM) characterizes local structural relaxation dynamics in fluctuating systems like supercooled liquids with nanometer spatial resolution. We have developed a new type of ECM technique that provides moderate resolution in momentum transfer or k space using five-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy. k-resolved ECM on a Pt57.5Cu14.7Ni5.3P22.5 metallic supercooled liquids measures rich spatial and momentum structure in the relaxation time data τ(r,k). Relaxation time maps τ(r) at each azimuthal k are independent samples of the material's underlying relaxation time distribution, and τ of radial k shows more complex behavior than the de Gennes narrowing observed in analogous X-ray experiments. We have determined the requirements for electron counts per k-pixel, number of k-pixels per speckle, and time sampling to obtain reliable k-resolved ECM data.
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