Volume 23, Issue 2, March 2009

Pedro Galindo,¹ Joaquín Pizarro,¹ Sergio Molina¹ and Kazuo Ishizuka ² 1. University of Cadiz, Spain 2. HREM Research, Saitama, Japan

Strain mapping is a numerical image-processing technique that measures the local shifts of an image with respect to the ideal positions in the bulk. Peak Pairs is a recently introduced real space algorithm for strain mapping. A new plug-in for DigitalMicrograph implementing Peak Pairs Analysis has been developed ...

George Pantazopoulos and Athanasios Vazdirvanidis, ELKEME Hellenic Research Centre for Metals, Athens, Greece

Copper is widely used as a construction material in hydraulic and electrical installations, due to its superior electrical and thermal conductivity, formability, corrosion resistance and antibacterial properties.
However, aggressive environmental conditions and/or insufficient design result very frequently in unexpected failures that lead to significant maintenance or production costs...

Herbert Schmid and Werner Mader, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Bonn, Germany

Energy-filtered transmission electron microscopy imaging showed that dopants are essentially located in the IDBs. Quantitative electron energy-loss spectroscopy analysis revealed that unaffected ZnO domains contain up to 0.4 at.% Fe in solid solution, whereas inverted domains are Fe depleted...