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Tracing the motion of electrons has enormous relevance to understanding ubiquitous phenomena in ultrafast science, such as the dynamical evolution of the electron density during complex chemical and biological processes. Scattering of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-03-28 Gopal Dixit , Jan Malte Slowik , Robin Santra

Ptychography provides high dose efficiency images that can reveal light elements next to heavy atoms. However, despite ptychography having an otherwise single signed contrast transfer function, contrast reversals can occur when the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 C. Gao , C. Hofer , T. J. Pennycook

Ptychography provides highly efficient imaging in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), but questions have remained over its applicability to strongly scattering samples such as those most commonly seen in materialsscience.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 C. Gao , C. Hofer , D. Jannis , A. Béché , J. Verbeeck , T. J. Pennycook

Precession of a converged beam during acquisition of a 4D-STEM dataset improves strain, orientation, and phase mapping accuracy by averaging over continuous angles of illumination. Precession experiments usually rely on integrated systems,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-20 Stephanie M. Ribet , Rohan Dhall , Colin Ophus , Karen C. Bustillo

In materials science and particularly electron microscopy, Electron Back-scatter Diffraction (EBSD) is a common and powerful mapping technique for collecting local crystallographic data at the sub-micron scale. The quality of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Florian Strub , Marie-Agathe Charpagne , Tresa M. Pollock

Lorentz transmission electron microscopy (LTEM) is a powerful tool for high-resolution imaging of magnetic textures, including their dynamics under external stimuli and ultrafast nonequilibrium conditions. However, magnetic imaging is often…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-12 Shunsuke Hayashi , Dongxue Han , Hidenori Tsuji , Kyoko Ishizaka , Asuka Nakamura

Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) is a technique used to measure crystallographic features in the scanning electron microscope. The technique is highly automated and readily accessible in many laboratories. EBSD pattern indexing is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Thomas Benjamin Britton , Vivian Tong , Jim Hickey , Alex Foden , Angus Wilkinson

Nowadays, modern electron microscopes deliver images at atomic scale. The precise atomic structure encodes information about material properties. Thus, an important ingredient in the image analysis is to locate the centers of the atoms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Benjamin Berkels , Benedikt Wirth

In differential phase contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy (DPC-STEM), variability in dynamical diffraction resulting from changes in sample thickness and local crystal orientation (due to sample bending) can produce contrast…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-06 T. Mawson , A. Nakamura , T. C. Petersen , N. Shibata , H. Sasaki , D. M. Paganin , M. J. Morgan , S. D. Findlay

Electron diffraction through a thin patterned silicon membrane can be used to create complex spatial modulations in electron distributions by varying the intensity of different reflections using parameters such as crystallographic…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-05-30 L. E. Malin , W. S. Graves , M. Holl , J. C. H. Spence , E. A. Nanni , R. K. Li , X. Shen , S. Weathersby

Electron channeling contrast imaging (ECCI) is a scanning electron microscopy (SEM) based technique that enables bulk-sample characterization of crystallographic defects (e.g. dislocations, stacking faults, low angle boundaries). Despite…

The interaction of swift, free-space electrons with confined optical near fields has recently sparked much interest. It enables a new type of photon-induced near-field electron microscopy, mapping local optical near fields around…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Germann Hergert , Andreas Woeste , Petra Gross , Christoph Lienau

Electron backscatter diffraction is a widely used technique for nano- to micro-scale analysis of crystal structure and orientation. Backscatter patterns produced by an alloy solid solution matrix and its ordered superlattice exhibit only…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-13 Thomas P McAuliffe , David Dye , T Ben Britton

Photoelectron holography constitutes a powerful tool for the ultrafast imaging of matter, as it combines high electron currents with subfemtosecond resolution, and gives information about transition amplitudes and phase shifts. Similarly to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 C. Figueira de Morisson Faria , A. S. Maxwell

What does the diffraction pattern from a single atom look like? How does it differ from the scattering from long range potential? With the development of new high-dynamic range pixel array detectors to measure the complete momentum…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-29 Michael C. Cao , Yimo Han , Zhen Chen , Yi Jiang , Kayla X. Nguyen , Emrah Turgut , Greg Fuchs , David A. Muller

Recent studies of secondary electron (SE) emission in scanning transmission electron microscopes suggest that material's properties such as electrical conductivity, connectivity, and work function can be probed with atomic scale resolution…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-01 Ondrej Dyck , Jawaher Almutlaq , Jacob L. Swett , Andrew R. Lupini , Dirk Englund , Stephen Jesse

Imaging of magnetic domains with a photoelectron emission microscope operated with photon energies in the threshold regime often suffers from low contrast. In this work we show by symmetry considerations, photoemission calculations, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-22 F. O. Schumann , M. Paleschke , J. Henk , W. Widdra , C. -T. Chiang

We present a simple 'shift-and-add' based improvement in the angular resolution of single electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) patterns. Sub-pixel image registration is used to measure the (sub-pixel) difference in projection parameters…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-15 Ben Britton , Tianbi Zhang

Differential Phase Contrast (DPC) imaging, in which deviations in the bright field beam are in proportion to the electric field, has been extensively studied in the context of pure elastic scattering. Here we discuss differential phase…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-29 Michael Deimetry , Timothy C. Petersen , Hamish G. Brown , Matthew Weyland , Scott D. Findlay

The {\AA}ngstr\"om-sized probe of the scanning transmission electron microscope can visualize and collect spectra from single atoms. This can unambiguously resolve the chemical structure of materials, but not their isotopic composition.…