Artifact-free Cross-sections October 20, 2020 Operation of CP, Sample Preparation 0 The Cross Section Polisher (CP) is a new cross-section sample preparation device that addresses some of the issues involved with preparing very small and relatively soft specimens for SEM analysis. The CP can easily prepare a cross section that is hundreds of micrometers in width and can preserve nanometer-level fine structures. For full details: Attached files often contain the full content of the item you are viewing. Be sure and view any attachments. CP Article AMP-MPMD Supplement - July06.pdf 1.19 MB Related Articles Ion beam sputter coating with CROSS SECTION POLISHER™ CROSS SECTION POLISHER™ (CP) is an SEM specimen preparation device that utilized broad Ar ion beam to produce artifact-free cross-sections. The same principle can be employed not only for ion-milling but also deposition of thin layer to the specimen surface, in particular conductive coating for followup observation of a non-conductive specimen in an SEM. New Cross-Section Sample Preparation Method Applied to Microstructural and Chemical Investigation of Steel Coatings using FE-SEM Steel strips coated with Al-43.5Zn-1.5Si (Galvalume) alloy exhibit superior corrosion resistance as compared to Zn galvanized steel strips. The continuous hot-dip coating process used to produce such coatings entails a metallurgical reaction between the steel strip and Al-Zn-Si liquid alloy that leads to formation of an intermetallic compound layer at the steel-coating interface. Formability of the coated strip depends strongly on the morphology, dimensions (thickness) and chemical nature of this intermetallic layer. Proper characterization of the intermetallic layer structure and chemistry and the nucleation sites on the steel surface is therefore of paramount importance for the development of formable Galvalume coated steel strips. This requires preparation of artifact free cross-sectional samples. Such samples can be obtained using JEOL Cross-section Polisher (CP). Unlike mechanical sample preparation techniques that introduce significant amount of strain and possible artifacts due to preferential etching of various constituents, the CP uses a broad Ar beam and a rocking stage that minimize possible preferential etching and produces strain free cross-sections. In this paper, SEM images as well as chemical (EDS) data characterizing the interface layer between the steel strip and the Galvalume coating prepared using Cross-sectional Polisher are presented. High Quality Cross Sections of Low Melting Point Samples Prepared with Cryo Ion Slicer – Broad Ar Ion Beam Milling Apparatus with a Newly Developed Specimen Cooling Unit Ion Slicer (IS) is an instrument used to prepare TEM lamellas and SEM cross-sections by employing an Ar broad ion beam. The IS has been getting quite popular in TEM and SEM laboratories because of its ease of use and high quality results. However, it is difficult to mill low melting point materials by the Ar broad ion beam because of thermal damage during the milling. Therefore, we have developed a specimen cooling unit for the IS. This cooling unit keeps specimen at low temperature during the ion milling to avoid the thermal damage. We named this system Cryo Ion Slicer(CIS). New Methods for Cross-Section Sample Preparation Using Broad Argon Ion Beam (Paper Analysis) In 2006, we introduced a new specimen preparation apparatus, Cross-section Polisher (CP), which employs a broad argon ion beam to prepare cross-sections of specimens [1-2]. The principle of the CP is simple: a region of the specimen that is not covered by the masking plate is milled by an argon broad ion beam, as shown in Fig.1. The specimens with irregular shapes and rough surfaces that cannot be embedded prior to ion milling require additional care and consideration prior to ion-milling with CP. Pristine Sample Preparation Using Broad Ion Beam Traditional mechanical preparation of specimen surfaces suffers from various artifacts, such as scratches and embedded polishing media, that obscure the original microstructure, crystallographic information and precise layer thickness measurements. Broad ion beam polishing using the JEOL cross-section polisher (CP) offers pristine surface preparation with minimal artifacts. CP is a tabletop instrument that is ideally suited for preparation of a variety of environmentally-sensitive and beam-sensitive materials, including metals, polymers, ceramics and composites. The instrument includes both cryo-preparation (down to LN2temperature) and air-isolated transfer and preparation environment. Designing Better Batteries Through Innovative Microscopy Characterization Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM) support the development of new LIB technologies with morphological observation at the micrometer to nanometer scale, as well as the chemical analysis needed to create high-performance coatings and powders. Ultra-low voltage imaging combined with signal filtering in the SEM allows direct imaging and analysis of battery constituents (anode and cathode) with nanometer resolution. Additionally, one of the important aspects of the analysis is the ability to probe chemistry of the constituents at nm scale (Fig. 1). JEOL FESEM offers the ability to perform microanalysis with energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) at extremely low voltages to pinpoint localized makeup of the specimens and, in particular, low atomic number materials such as carbon and fluorine. Moreover, the unique JEOL Soft X-ray spectrometer (SXES) allows researchers to analyze Li. Showing 0 Comment Comments are closed.