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Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy have become indispensable tools for probing condensed matter at atomic length scales, yet achieving ultimate energy resolution remains a persistent challenge. At mK temperatures, the dynamical…
The Noise2Void technique is demonstrated for successful denoising of atomic-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) images. The technique is applied to denoising atomic resolution images and videos of gold adatoms on a…
We use an optical cavity to detect single atoms magnetically trapped on an atom chip. We implement the detection using both fluorescence into the cavity and reduction in cavity transmission due to the presence of atoms. In fluorescence, we…
Circular aperture probes have been successfully used for high-resolution near-field microwave imaging. It has been established that circular aperture probes could conceivably provide higher image fidelity compared to rectangular aperture…
Plenty of quantum information protocols are enabled by manipulation and detection of photonic spectro-temporal degrees of freedom via light-matter interfaces. While present implementations are well suited for high-bandwidth photon sources…
Resolving single atoms in large-scale volumes has been a goal for atomic resolution microscopy for a long time. Electron microscopy has come close to this goal using a combination of advanced electron optics and computational imaging…
In this paper, we have designed a low-cost scanning tunneling microscope (STM) priced at 300 USD or 2000 CNY. This microscope is suitable for educational purposes and low-demand research imaging at the nanometer level. This microscope's…
The intersection between dislocations and a Ag(111) surface has been studied using an interplay of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and molecular dynamics (MD). Whereas the STM provides atomically resolved information about the surface…
Tomographic imaging with radionuclides commonly used in nuclear medicine, such as $^{111}$In (171 and 245 keV) and $^{131}$I (364 keV), is in high demand for medical applications and small animal imaging. The Si/CdTe Compton camera with its…
A Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) is one of the most important scanning probe tools available to study and manipulate matter at the nanoscale. In a STM, a tip is scanned on top of a surface with a separation of a few \AA. Often, the…
We report on a lightwave-driven scanning tunneling microscope based on a home-built microscope and a compact, commercial, and cost-effective terahertz-generation unit with a repetition rate of 100 MHz. The measurements are performed in…
Recent advances in increasing the spectroscopic energy resolution in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) have been achieved by integrating electron spin resonance (ESR) with STM. Here, we demonstrate the design and performance of a…
We describe quantitative imaging of the sheet resistance of metallic thin films by monitoring frequency shift and quality factor in a resonant scanning near-field microwave microscope. This technique allows fast acquisition of images at…
A series of experiments were conducted using the STM instrument, which involves a conducting tip probe to analyse sample surfaces by measurements of a tunnelling current. In this experiment, STM was used to (1) determine the lattice…
Thermo-elastic conversion of electromagnetic wave into ultrasound wave has enabled diverse biomedical applications such as photoacoustic imaging. Microwave, which has ~10 cm long wavelength, can penetrate deeper into tissue than photons,…
We photoionize nitrogen molecules with a train of extreme ultraviolet attosecond pulses together with a weak infrared field. We measure the phase of the two-color two-photon ionization transition (molecular phase) for different states of…
We have realized a high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometer combined with a magneto-optical trap. The spectrometer enables excellent optical access to the trapped atomic cloud using specifically devised acceleration and deflection…
Ridge detection is a classical tool to extract curvilinear features in image processing. As such, it has great promise in applications to material science problems; specifically, for trend filtering relatively stable atom-shaped objects in…
We discuss experimental studies of the interaction between a nanoscopic object and a photonic crystal membrane resonator of quality factor Q=55000. By controlled actuation of a glass fiber tip in the near-field of a photonic crystal, we…
Accelerating imaging speed in optical microscopy is often realized at the expense of image contrast, image resolution, and detection sensitivity- a common predicament for advancing high-speed and high-throughput cellular imaging. We here…