TEM analyses (Prof. Pascal J. Jacques)

The main objective of the TEM characterizations is to elucidate the fundamental micro/nanoscopic mechanisms controlling the deformation and fracture of bulk and small-sized metals and alloys elaborated in UCL. Ex-situ advanced TEM techniques such as aberration corrected TEM, automatic crystallographic orientation and nanostrain mapping in TEM as well as analytical TEM will be used to characterize defects and interfaces while quantified in-situ nanomechanical TEM testing will be performed in order to directly observe the plasticity mechanisms inside the microscope. TEM thin foils for the ex-situ and in-situ TEM characterizations will be prepared in EMAT.

Keywords:TEM

Disciplines:Structural and mechanical properties, Phase transformations, Metals and alloy materials