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Alloyeau D, Ricolleau C, Oikawa T, et al. Comparing electron tomography and HRTEM slicing methods as tools to measure the thickness of nanoparticles. Ultramicroscopy. 2009;109(7):788-96doi: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2009.02.002.
Alloyeau, D., Ricolleau, C., Oikawa, T., Langlois, C., Le Bouar, Y., & Loiseau, A. (2009). Comparing electron tomography and HRTEM slicing methods as tools to measure the thickness of nanoparticles. Ultramicroscopy, 109(7), 788-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2009.02.002
Alloyeau, D, et al. "Comparing electron tomography and HRTEM slicing methods as tools to measure the thickness of nanoparticles." Ultramicroscopy vol. 109,7 (2009): 788-96. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2009.02.002
Alloyeau D, Ricolleau C, Oikawa T, Langlois C, Le Bouar Y, Loiseau A. Comparing electron tomography and HRTEM slicing methods as tools to measure the thickness of nanoparticles. Ultramicroscopy. 2009 Jun;109(7):788-96. doi: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2009.02.002. Epub 2009 Feb 28. PMID: 19327891.
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Ultramicroscopy. 2009 Jun;109(7):788-96. doi: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2009.02.002. Epub 2009 Feb 28.

Comparing electron tomography and HRTEM slicing methods as tools to measure the thickness of nanoparticles.

Ultramicroscopy

D Alloyeau, C Ricolleau, T Oikawa, C Langlois, Y Le Bouar, A Loiseau

Affiliations

  1. Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, Université Paris 7/CNRS, UMR 7162, 2 Place Jussieu, 75251 Paris, France. [email protected]

PMID: 19327891 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2009.02.002

Abstract

Nanoparticles' morphology is a key parameter in the understanding of their thermodynamical, optical, magnetic and catalytic properties. In general, nanoparticles, observed in transmission electron microscopy (TEM), are viewed in projection so that the determination of their thickness (along the projection direction) with respect to their projected lateral size is highly questionable. To date, the widely used methods to measure nanoparticles thickness in a transmission electron microscope are to use cross-section images or focal series in high-resolution transmission electron microscopy imaging (HRTEM "slicing"). In this paper, we compare the focal series method with the electron tomography method to show that both techniques yield similar particle thickness in a range of size from 1 to 5 nm, but the electron tomography method provides better statistics since more particles can be analyzed at one time. For this purpose, we have compared, on the same samples, the nanoparticles thickness measurements obtained from focal series with the ones determined from cross-section profiles of tomograms (tomogram slicing) perpendicular to the plane of the substrate supporting the nanoparticles. The methodology is finally applied to the comparison of CoPt nanoparticles annealed ex situ at two different temperatures to illustrate the accuracy of the techniques in detecting small particle thickness changes.

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