Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Grain boundary structural transformation induced by co-segregation of aliovalent dopants

  • Toshihiro Futazuka,
  • Ryo Ishikawa,
  • Naoya Shibata,
  • Yuichi Ikuhara

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32935-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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The effect of aliovalent doping on grain boundary is not yet fully understood at the atomic level. Here, the authors report grain boundary structural transformation in α-Al2O3 is induced by co-segregation of multiple dopants using atomic-resolution electron microscopy and theoretical calculations.