Studying Internal Compositions of Binary Alloy Pd-Rh Nanoparticles Using Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging

Abstract

Bragg coherent diffraction imaging (BCDI), the well-established technique for imaging internal strain of nanoparticles, was used to image the internal compositional distribution of binary alloys in thermal equilibrium. The images experimentally obtained for Pd-Rh alloy nanoparticles are presented and discussed. The direct correspondence between the lattice strain and the compositional deviation is discussed in the derivation of the BCDI displacement field aided by illustrations.