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The need to understand fast, complex physical phenomena through direct in situ observation has spurred the development of high-time-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Two complementary approaches have emerged: the single-shot and stroboscopic techniques. Single-shot TEM has advanced through the development of dynamic transmission electron microscopy (DTEM) and, more recently, by the advent of movie-mode DTEM, which enables high-frame-rate in situ TEM experimentation by capturing nanosecond-scale sequences of images or diffraction patterns. Previous DTEM studies produced only single snapshots of fast material processes. Movie-mode DTEM provides the ability to track the creation, motion, and interaction of individual defects, phase fronts, and chemical reaction fronts, providing invaluable information on the chemical, microstructural, and atomic-level features that govern rapid material processes. This article discusses movie-mode DTEM technology, its application in the study of reaction dynamics in Ti–B-based reactive nanolaminates, and future instrumentation.
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MM-DTEM research on reactive multilayer foils was supported by the US Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (BES), under field work proposal SCW0979, and the work conducted at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) was performed under the auspices of the DOE by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. We acknowledge David Adams and Robert Reeves of Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM) for producing the Ti-B RMFLs used in the MM-DTEM studies presented in this article and for fruitful discussions regarding the dynamics of RMLFs. We also acknowledge Ryan Chen of the Technical Information Department of LLNL for the production of the MM-DTEM graphic shown in Figure 1.
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La Grange, T., Reed, B.W. & Masiel, D.J. Movie-mode dynamic electron microscopy. MRS Bulletin 40, 22–28 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs.2014.282
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