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ArticleAdvanced structural and chemical imaging2017

An environmental transfer hub for multimodal atom probe tomography.

Daniel E Perea, Stephan S A Gerstl, Jackson Chin, Blake Hirschi, James E Evans

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Article in Advanced structural and chemical imaging, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Daniel E PereaEnvironmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 3335 Innovation Boulevard, Richland, WA 99354 USA.
Stephan S A GerstlScientific Center for Optical and Electron Microscopy (ScopeM), ETH Zurich, Auguste-Piccard-Hof 1, Zurich, 8093 Switzerland.
Jackson ChinEnvironmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 3335 Innovation Boulevard, Richland, WA 99354 USA.
Blake HirschiEnvironmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 3335 Innovation Boulevard, Richland, WA 99354 USA.
James E EvansEnvironmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 3335 Innovation Boulevard, Richland, WA 99354 USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Environmental control during transfer between instruments is required for samples sensitive to air or thermal exposure to prevent morphological or chemical changes prior to analysis. Atom probe tomography is a rapidly expanding technique for three-dimensional structural and chemical analysis, but commercial instruments remain limited to loading specimens under ambient conditions. In this study, we describe a multifunctional environmental transfer hub allowing controlled cryogenic or room-temperature transfer of specimens under atmospheric or vacuum pressure conditions between an atom probe and other instruments or reaction chambers. The utility of the environmental transfer hub is demonstrated through the acquisition of previously unavailable mass spectral analysis of an intact organic molecule made possible via controlled cryogenic transfer into the atom probe using the hub. The ability to prepare and transfer specimens in precise environments promises a means to access new science across many disciplines from untainted samples and allow downstream time-resolved in situ atom probe studies.

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Atom probe tomographyCryo atom probe tomographyCryogenic transferEnvironmental transfer

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PMCPMC5413530

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