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MLC Nanotube YS-TaS2

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Specimen

Formula
(YS)1.2-TaS2
Elements
Y, S, Ta
Edges
Y L1, Y L2,3, Ta M4,5, S K
Source and purity
Nanotube synthesized by chemical vapour transport technique
Energy range
1700 – 2574 eV
Step
0.5 eV

Keywords

  • Misfit layered compound
  • nanotube

Treatment

Dark current corrected
Yes
Gain variation corrected
Yes
Calibration
zero+dispersion

Acquisition

Microscope
Thermo Fisher Scientific Titan Low-Base
Gun
X-FEG
Beam energy
300 kV
Convergence semi-angle
25 mrad
Collection semi-angle
85.7 mrad
Resolution
1.8 eV
Monochromated
No
Mode
stem
Detector
Gatan Tridiem ESR 865 EEL spectrometer
Integration time
0.5 s
Readouts
765

Reference

Simon Hettler, M. B. Sreedhara, Marco Serra, Sudarson S. Sinha, Ronit Popovitz-Biro, Iddo Pinkas, Andrey N. Enyashin, Reshef Tenne, Raul Arenal. “YS-TaS2 and YxLa1–xS-TaS2 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) Nanotubes: A Family of Misfit Layered Compounds”. ACS Nano, 14(5), 5445-5458 (2020). doi:10.1021/acsnano.9b09284 Article

Associated spectra

Please cite this spectrum

If you use this spectrum, cite the contributor's paper and the EELS Data Base.

Simon Hettler. MLC Nanotube YS-TaS2 ((YS)1.2-TaS2). EELS Data Base, spectrum 22224, 2023. https://eelsdb.eu/spectra/mlc-nanotube-ys-tas2/

Simon Hettler, M. B. Sreedhara, Marco Serra, Sudarson S. Sinha, Ronit Popovitz-Biro, Iddo Pinkas, Andrey N. Enyashin, Reshef Tenne, Raul Arenal. “YS-TaS2 and YxLa1–xS-TaS2 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) Nanotubes: A Family of Misfit Layered Compounds”. ACS Nano, 14(5), 5445-5458 (2020). doi:10.1021/acsnano.9b09284

Philip Ewels, Thierry Sikora, Virginie Serin, Chris P. Ewels and Luc Lajaunie. “A Complete Overhaul of the Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy and X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Database: eelsdb.eu.” Microscopy and Microanalysis 22, 717–724 (2016). doi:10.1017/S1431927616000179
BibTeX
@misc{Hettler2023eelsdb22224,
  author = {Simon Hettler},
  title = {MLC Nanotube YS-TaS2},
  howpublished = {EELS Data Base, spectrum 22224},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://eelsdb.eu/spectra/mlc-nanotube-ys-tas2/}
}

@article{Hettler2023eelsdb22224ref,
  author = {Simon Hettler, M. B. Sreedhara, Marco Serra, Sudarson S. Sinha, Ronit Popovitz-Biro, Iddo Pinkas, Andrey N. Enyashin, Reshef Tenne, Raul Arenal},
  title = {YS-TaS2 and YxLa1–xS-TaS2 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) Nanotubes: A Family of Misfit Layered Compounds},
  journal = {ACS Nano},
  volume = {14},
  number = {5},
  pages = {5445--5458},
  year = {2020},
  doi = {10.1021/acsnano.9b09284}
}

@article{ewels2016eelsdb,
  author = {Ewels, Philip and Sikora, Thierry and Serin, Virginie and Ewels, Chris P. and Lajaunie, Luc},
  title = {A Complete Overhaul of the Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy and X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Database: eelsdb.eu},
  journal = {Microscopy and Microanalysis},
  volume = {22},
  pages = {717--724},
  year = {2016},
  doi = {10.1017/S1431927616000179}
}