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Transmission Electron Microscopy of Crystallization Process of Amorphous Iron Oxide Films
Murzakaev A. M.1
1Institute of Electrophysics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Email: amurzak@mail.ru

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Crystal growth in amorphous thin iron oxide films is accompanied by the formation of transrotational crystals. The aim of this work is to identify the growth mechanism of transrotational crystals. Crystal growth and the structure of crystallized regions in amorphous thin Fe2O3 films were studied in situ using a transmission electron microscope (TEM). Structural changes were revealed by electron diffraction methods (selected area electron diffraction - SAED). High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) studies revealed oxygen vacancies in Fe2O3 samples. They are arranged by forming crystallographic shear planes (CS). Processing and analysis of HRTEM images revealed a large number of dislocations and disclinations. All types of crystal lattice defects revealed by HRTEM, and especially dislocations with disclinations, can contribute to the formation (emergence) of a transrotational crystal lattice. Keywords: Amorphous films, transrotational crystal, HRTEM, crystallographic shear, stacking faults, dislocation, disclination.
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