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STEM Investigation of Segregation and Local Structure at Grain Boundary in Tetragonal Zirconia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

H. Gu  and
F. Wakai
H. Gu
Affiliation:
Japan Science and Technology Corporation, “Ceramics Superplasticity” project, JFCC 2F, 2-4-1 Mutsuno, Atsuta, Nagoya456, Japan
F. Wakai
Affiliation:
Japan Science and Technology Corporation, “Ceramics Superplasticity” project, JFCC 2F, 2-4-1 Mutsuno, Atsuta, Nagoya456, Japan
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Y or Ca stabilized tetragonal ZrO2 (TZP) exhibits superplasticity at high temperature, and can also be used as solid electrolytes. Those properties are dictated by structure and chemistry of grain boundaries, which can be controlled by segregation of impurities or additives. The grain boundaries were found either covered by amorphous films or free of the film. Co-segragation of additives and stabilizers has also been observed. To fully understand the correlation between segregation and grain boundary structure, a dedicated STEM (VG HB601) capable of EDX/EELS analysis and phase/Z-contrast imaging is employed to study 3Y-TZP doped with 0.3 and 0.9 mol% SiO2.

Although Y-L lines arc dominated by overlapping Zr-L lines in EDX, Y excess at grain boundaries can still be measured by “spatial difference” which removes Zr signal with a spectrum from the bulk. The co-segregation of Si and Y is also observed (Fig. 1) at many boundaries. Their average excesses arc 5±2 nm−2and 25±10 run−2 respectively, close to 1 monolayer each of SiO2 and Y2O3.

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Segregation and Diffusion Analysis in Materials
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 3 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis '97, Microscopy Society of America 55th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 31st Annual Meeting, Histochemical Society 48th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, August 10-14, 1997 , August 1997 , pp. 549 - 550
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 1997

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