Experiment Science and Technology, Volume. 22, Issue 5, 1(2024)

Fabrication of In-situ Heating TEM Specimen Based on the FIB-SEM Dual Beam System

Xiaodong LIN... Xue LIANG, Yifeng LI, Wenxia CHEN*, Bo LU and Qiang LI |Show fewer author(s)
Author Affiliations
  • Instrumental Analysis & Research Center, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
  • show less

    Due to the advantages of high accuracy of location and fabrication, the focused ion beam-scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM) dual beam system is extensively employed in the preparation of micro/nano-scale specimens used for cross-section preparation, micro/nano-prototyping, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and atom probe tomography (APT) analyses. However, the development of in-situ characterization techniques in TEM requires higher quality of specimens, among which it is a significant challenge for preparing in-situ heating TEM specimens due to the heating chip geometry, especially during the processes of lift-out, transfer and thinning. Therefore, the FIB-SEM dual beam system is used in this work, and TEM specimens applicable to in-situ heating and characterization are successfully prepared through modifying procedures and parameters based on the traditional fabrication processes.

    Keywords
    Tools

    Get Citation

    Copy Citation Text

    Xiaodong LIN, Xue LIANG, Yifeng LI, Wenxia CHEN, Bo LU, Qiang LI. Fabrication of In-situ Heating TEM Specimen Based on the FIB-SEM Dual Beam System[J]. Experiment Science and Technology, 2024, 22(5): 1

    Download Citation

    EndNote(RIS)BibTexPlain Text
    Save article for my favorites
    Paper Information

    Category:

    Received: Apr. 12, 2023

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Dec. 13, 2024

    The Author Email: CHEN Wenxia (陈文霞)

    DOI:10.12179/1672-4550.20230201

    Topics