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Structure retrieval at atomic resolution in the presence of multiple scattering of the electron probe

Materials Science 2019-01-02 v1

Abstract

The projected electrostatic potential of a thick crystal is reconstructed at atomic-resolution from experimental scanning transmission electron microscopy data recorded using a new generation fast- readout electron camera. This practical and deterministic inversion of the equations encapsulating multiple scattering that were written down by Bethe in 1928 removes the restriction of established methods to ultrathin (50\lesssim 50 {\AA}) samples. Instruments already coming on-line can overcome the remaining resolution-limiting effects in this method due to finite probe-forming aperture size, spatial incoherence and residual lens aberrations.

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@article{arxiv.1809.09926,
  title  = {Structure retrieval at atomic resolution in the presence of multiple scattering of the electron probe},
  author = {Hamish G. Brown and Zhen Chen and Matthew Weyland and Colin Ophus and Jim Ciston and Les J. Allen and Scott D. Findlay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.09926},
  year   = {2019}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures