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Xueyan Song
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Statler College of Engineering Mineral Resources
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Beauty of Nanostructures

  • TEM image for the sample doped with 0.1 Yb and pressed at 0.5 GPa. Insert: HRTEM image shows the microstructure near GB region

    Solid State Communications, 152, 1509-1512 (2012)

  • HREM images and corresponding Fourier transformation of the nano-precipitates

    Ceramic International. 39 (2013) 4229-4305.

  • Diffraction contrast image of 5o grain boundary of YBCO grown under the higher deposition rate and diffraction contrast image

    Journal of Materials Research, 22, 950-957, 2007.

  • Z-contrast images of the (110) facet from the 5o grain boundary of YBCO grown under the higher deposition

    Journal of Materials Research, 22, 950-957, 2007.

  • a) TEM plan-view diffraction contrast showing the nanoprecipitate array within YBCO grain. (b) Complex electron diffraction taken along the [001] axis of YBCO grain

    Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 212508 (2006)

  • a, Pure and b, 0.3Ca-doped 7° [001]-tilt bicrystals, as examined by conventional TEM

    Nature Materials, 4, 470-475, 2005.

  • Z-contrast TEM images of [100] dislocation cores

    Nature Materials, 4, 470-475, 2005.

  • Morphology of the nano-precipitates from sample A: (a) uniformly distributed 5-nm precipitates, (b) precipitates and the dislocations

    Journal of Materials Research, 19, 2245-2255, 2004

  • HREM images showing the nano-precipitates from samples A and B.

    Journal of Materials Research, 19, 2245-2255, 2004

  • Transmission electron micrograph shows that the MgCNi3 colonies are separated by a graphite layer

    Physical Review B, 65, 214518, 2002

  • Selected area diffraction patterns from the [21¯1], [301], and [100] MgCNi3 zone axes.

    Physical Review B, 65, 214518, 2002

  • TEM image for the sample doped with 0.3 Yb and pressed at 2 GPa. Insert: HRTEM image shows the microstructure near GB region

    Solid State Communications, 152, 1509-1512 (2012)

  • Selected area diffraction patterns from the [101] and [211] zone axes, respectively. Arcs centered around the central electron beam (solid lines in the sketches below) are due to primary diffraction of graphite.

    Physical Review B, 65, 214518, 2002

  • High-resolution TEM images from a thin region of the sample, taken along the [301] zone axis

    Physical Review B, 65, 214518, 2002

  • a, Dark-field, plan-view image of film 2 in which only a fraction of the grains show bright intensity, clearly revealing the 10 nm grain size of the material. b, c, Selected area diffraction patterns from about 1 µm square areas of film 2

    Nature, 411, 558 - 560, 2001.

  • TEM bright field images of intragranular (a) and intergranular (b) precipitates.

    Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 509 (2011) 6556-6560

  • Diffraction pattern indicating the spots that correspond to the first and second level of modulations.

    Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 509 (2011) 6556-6560

  • High resolution TEM image taken from pellet made of CCO-923 K powder

    J Sol-Gel Sci Technol, 64, 627-636 (2012)

  • HRTEM image showing the first and second level modulations as well as the fcc structure in the orthorhombic C20Cr25V55

    Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 509 (2011) 6556-6560

  • High-resolution TEM image showing non-uniform distribution of the compositionally modulated regions and corresponding FFT spectra

    Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 528, 10-15 (2012)

  • Diffraction contrast images and selected area electron diffraction patterns from the NiTi-rich precipitates and the interface between the matrix and the precipitates in Alloy A

    Intermetallic, 35, 33- 40 (2013).

  • (left) Diffraction patterns for the P* phase in the B2-type (TiZr)Ni phase matrix from the [100] and [111] directions and (right) oblate spindle-like P phase, indicated by capital letter B, precipitated in the B2-type (TiZr)Ni phase matrix.

    Journal of Materials Research, 18, 37-44, 2003.

  • Systematic diffraction patterns of (TiZr)2Ni phase in the Zr0.8Ti0.2(MnVNi)2.2 alloy

    Journal of Materials Research, 18, 37-44, 2003.

  • Diffraction patterns from the P* phase in the [100] direction together with the R phase matrix

    Journal of Materials Research, 18, 37-44, 2003.

  • Systematic diffraction patterns from the (TiZr) 2 Ni phase in the Zr 1 − x Ti x (MnVNi) 2.2 alloy for x ס 0.3 and 0.4

    Journal of Materials Research, 18, 37-44, 2003.

  • Morphology and corresponding diffraction patterns of the coexisting (TiZr)Ni phase and (TiZr) 2 Ni phases in the Zr 1 − x Ti x (MnVNi) 2.2

    Journal of Materials Research, 18, 37-44, 2003.

  • Composite EDP’s of Ti0.8Zr0.2Ni phase in the alloy Zr0.5Ti0.5(Mn0.1V0.3Ni0.6)2.

    Journal of Materials Research, 14, 1279-1285, 1999.

  • TEM diffraction contrast taken from the pellet made of CCO-1,073 K powder

    J Sol-Gel Sci Technol, 64, 627-636 (2012)

  • HRTEM images showing the t-YSZ ribbon phase and c-YSZ domain along the Ni/YSZ interface for the sample operated in syngas with phosphine for 117 h

    Solid State Ionics, 234, 25-32 (2013)

  • Electron diffraction and diffraction contrast images taken from 550 h operated cell. Anode active layer.

    Solid State Ionics, 206, 104-111, 2012

  • TEM diffraction contrast images showing the morphology and distribution of the nano-precipitates

    Ceramic International. 39 (2013) 4229-4305.

  • TEM diffraction contrast images showing the morphology and distribution of the nano-precipitates

    Ceramic International. 39 (2013) 4229-4305.