Direct Observation of Vacancies and Local Thermal Vibration in Thermoelectric Rhenium Silicide
Direct Observation of Vacancies and Local Thermal Vibration in Thermoelectric Rhenium Silicide
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DOI:
10.1143/apex.5.035203
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发表时间:
2012-03-01
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
Inui, Haruyuki
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作者:
Harada, Shunta;Tanaka, Katsushi;Inui, Haruyuki
The crystal structure of rhenium silicide with an anomalous ordered arrangement of vacancies has been investigated by utilizing spherical-aberration (C-s)-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). Using C-s-corrected STEM imaging, we directly observe for the first time ordered silicon vacancies in thermoelectric rhenium silicide accompanied by anomalously large local thermal vibration ("rattling" motion) of silicon atoms in their adjacent sites. (C) 2012 The Japan Society of Applied Physics