Using EBSD and TEM-Kikuchi patterns to study local crystallography at the domain boundaries of lead zirconate titanate

J Microsc. 2008 Jun;230(Pt 3):445-54. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2008.02004.x.

Abstract

Reliable EBSD mapping of 90 degree domains in a tetragonal ferroelectric perovskite has been achieved for the first time, together with reliable automated orientation determination from TEM-Kikuchi patterns. This has been used to determine misorientation angles at 90 degree domain boundaries and thus local c/a ratios. The sources of orientation noise/error and their effects on the misorientation angle data have been thoroughly analyzed and it is found that this gives a cosine distribution of misorientation angles about the mean with a characteristic width related to the width of the orientation noise distribution. In most cases, a good agreement is found between local c/a ratios and global measurements by X-ray diffraction, but some clear discrepancies have also been found suggesting that real local variations are present, perhaps as a consequence of compositional inhomogeneities.

MeSH terms

  • Crystallization
  • Crystallography / methods*
  • Lead / analysis
  • Lead / chemistry*
  • Microscopy, Electron
  • Titanium / analysis
  • Titanium / chemistry*
  • X-Ray Diffraction*
  • Zirconium / analysis
  • Zirconium / chemistry*

Substances

  • lead titanate zirconate
  • Lead
  • Zirconium
  • Titanium