Abstract

Abstract Traditionally, the structure and orientation relationship of individual catalyst particles on various oxide substrates have been studied by transmission electron microscopy. However, the combination of high resolution scanning electron microscopes (HRSEM) equipped with Schottky field emission sources with CCD cameras for recording electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) paterns, it is now possible to obtain both morpholgy and orientation of individual particles with high spatial resolution. In this paper, we present results on the application of combined EBSD with HRSEM to determine the epitaxial orientation relationship of 80 nm Au particles on TiO2 (110). An evaluation of the spatial resolution limit of EBSD using Monte Carlo simulation of backscattered electron trajectories is also presented. The TiO2 (110) single crystal surfaces used in this study were prepared in UHV using surface science tools followed by in-situ metallization. After deposition of 15 nm Au at 300K followed by annealing at 800K, the samples were transferred in air to the Field Emission Scanning Electron microscope (LEO 982 Gemini) for high resolution imaging.

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