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Figure 2
An electron-microscopy image of a crystal of Li2NaTa7O19 taken with a standard 200 kV TEM. Two thin circular regions have been cut out and their Fourier transforms calculated (below). The larger region is 168 Å across, the smaller 84 Å and contains only 15 unit cells. As expected, the diffractogram of the larger area (right) shows sharper peaks, but it is possible to solve the structure even from the smaller region (left), as seen in the insets with one unit cell marked. The Nb atoms are shown in black in the smaller inset and orange in the bigger inset. Thus, a structure can be solved from a crystal smaller than 10 × 10 nm using electron crystallography.

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