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Hafnium-Silicon Precipitate Structure Determination in a New Heat-Resistant Ferritic Alloy by Precession Electron Diffraction Techniques
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The structure determination of an HfSi4 precipitate has been carried out by a combination of two precession electron diffraction techniques: high precession angle, 2.2°, single pattern collection at eight different zone axes and low precession angle, 0.5°, serial collection of patterns obtained by increasing tilts of 1°. A three-dimensional reconstruction of the associated reciprocal space shows an orthorhombic unit cell with parameters a = 11.4 Å, b = 11.8 Å, c = 14.6 Å, and an extinction condition of (hkl) h + k odd. The merged intensities from the high angle precession patterns have been symmetry tested for possible space groups (SG) fulfilling this condition and a best symmetrization residual found at 18% for SG 65 Cmmm. Use of the SIR2011 direct methods program allowed solving the structure with a structure residual of 18%. The precipitate objects of this study were reproducibly found in a newly implemented alloy, designed according to molecular orbital theory.
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VILADOT, Désirée, et al. Hafnium-Silicon Precipitate Structure Determination in a New Heat-Resistant Ferritic Alloy by Precession Electron Diffraction Techniques. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 2014. Vol. 20, num. 1, pags. 25-32. ISSN 1431-9276. [consulted: 10 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/54505