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
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.
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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
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Received: Apr. 12, 2023
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Published Online: Dec. 13, 2024
The Author Email: CHEN Wenxia (陈文霞)