Imaging and visualising nanometre scale surface geometry of a crystalline mineral (SiO2) in monochromatic spectra
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Digital microphotography and image analysis is considered as an important tool in sedimentology and mineralogy for the assessment of physical characteristics at micro and nano level. In this paper the present authors attempted to apply digital imaging technique to visualise the surface geometry of Quartz at nanometre scale. For that purpose a quartz specimen was picked up from microphotography of a thick section of sediment layer and 1?m X 1 ?m base image was prepared for digital operation with sophisticated software. Reflectance capacity of the particle has been considered to measure the surface condition. An automated contour plotting was done from the base image. Surface condition was also analysed by reflective radiance measurement. Four images based on greyscale, black body law, pseudo colour composition and landscape were prepared for detailed assessment of quartz nanomorphology. A 3D image was also consulted for understanding the geometry of the surface of quartz.
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Quartz, Nanoscale, Imaging, Reflectance, Monochromatic, Surface geometry
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Feigl, F.J. and Anderson, J.H. (1970). Defects in crystalline quartz: electron paramagnetic resonance of E’ vacancy centers associated with germanium impurities. Journal of Physics
and Chemistry of Solids, 31:575-596.
Götze, J., Plötze, M., Fuchs, H., and Habermann, D. (2001). Origin, spectral characteristics and practical applications of the cathodoluminescence (CL) of quartz - a review. Mineralogy and Petrology, 71:225-250.
Götze, J., Plötze, M., and Trautmann, T. (2005). Structure and luminescence characteristics of quartz from pegmatites. American Mineralogist, 90:13-21.
Jiang, H., Ramunno-Johnson, D., Song, C., Amirbekian, B., Kohmura, Y., Nishino, Y. Takahashi, Y., Ishikawa, T. and Miao J. (2008). Nanoscale Imaging of Mineral Crystals inside Biological Composite Materials Using X-Ray Diffraction Microscopy; Physical Review Letters, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.038103,
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Sprunt, E.S. (1981). Causes of quartz cathodoluminescence colours. Scan. Elec. Micros., 525-535.
Stevens Kalceff, M.A. and Phillips, M.R. (1995) Cathodoluminescence microcharacterization of the defect structure of quartz. Physics Review, B 52: 3122-3134.
Udubasa, G.,Constantinescu, S., Popescu-Pogrion, N., Hirtopanu1, P. and Udubasa, S.S. (2007). Nano-minerals identification by different physical techniques. Romanian Reports in Physics, 59: ( 3) 819–824.
van der Meer, J. J. M. (1987). Micromorphology of glacial sediments as a tool in distinguishing genetic varieties of till; Geological Survey of Finland, Special Paper 3, Pp- 77–89.
van der Meer, J. J. M. and Laban, C. (1990). Micromorphology of some North Sea till samples, a pilot study; Journal of Quaternary Science, 5 : 95–101.
van der Meer, J. J. M. (1993). Microscopic evidence of subglacial deformation, Quaternary Science Reviews, 12 : 553–587.
van der Meer, J. J. M. (1996). Micromorphology, in Menzies; J., ed., Glacial environments, Oxford, Butterworth-Heinmann, 2: Pp. 335–355.
Vernon, R. H. (2004): A Practical Guide to Rock Microstructure, Cambridge University Press, UK.
Wong, P.Z., Howard, J.and Lin J.S. (1986). Surface roughening and the fractal nature of rocks; Physical Review Letters, 57: 637-640.
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Imaging and visualising nanometre scale surface geometry of a crystalline mineral (SiO2) in monochromatic spectra. (2009). Journal of Applied and Natural Science, 1(1), 31-35. https://doi.org/10.31018/jans.v1i1.29
