Quantitative use of electron energy-loss spectroscopy Mo-M2,3 edges for the study of molybdenum oxides》.pdf

Ultramicroscopy 149 (2015) 1–8 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Ultramicroscopy journal homepage: /locate/ultramic Quantitative use of electron energy-loss spectroscopy Mo-M2,3 edges for the study of molybdenum oxides L. Lajaunie n,1, F. Boucher, R. Dessapt, P. Moreau Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN), Université de Nantes, CNRS, 2 rue de la Houssinière, BP 32229, 44322 Nantes Cedex 3, France a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Because of the large energy separation between O-K and Mo-L2,3 edges, extracting precise and reliable chemical Received 25 June 2014 information from core-loss EELS analyze of molybdenum oxides has always been a challenge. In this regard Received in revised form Mo-M2,3 edges represents an interesting alternative as they are situated close to the O-K edges. They should 20 October 2014 allow thus the extraction of a wealth of chemical information from the same spectra. However the main Accepted 6 November 2014 Available online 11 November 2014 difficulty to overcome in order to work properly with these edges is the delayed maxima of the Mo-M4,5 edges which hinders the automated background subtraction with the usual inverse power low function. In this study Keywords: we propose another background subtraction method specifically designed to overcome this obstacle and we MoO2