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Reliable quantitative analysis in scanning (transmission) electron microscopy (S(T)EM) is often hindered by image drift during long-duration spectral mapping for elemental analysis or for various material functions. We here present…

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Many man-made objects are characterised by a shape that is symmetric along one or more planar directions. Estimating the location and orientation of such symmetry planes can aid many tasks such as estimating the overall orientation of an…

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Diffuse optical imaging (DOI) offers valuable insights into scattering mediums, but the quest for high-resolution imaging often requires dense sampling strategies, leading to higher imaging errors and lengthy acquisition times. This work…

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Four-dimensional Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (4D-STEM) is a powerful technique for high-resolution and high-precision materials characterization at multiple length scales, including the characterization of beam-sensitive…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-08-11 Hsu-Chih Ni , Renliang Yuan , Jiong Zhang , Jian-Min Zuo

We introduce a new image contrast mechanism for scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) that derives from the local symmetry within the specimen. For a given position of the electron probe on the specimen, the image intensity is…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-30 Matus Krajnak , Joanne Etheridge

Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) enables the observation of atomic arrangements at sub-angstrom resolution, allowing for atomically resolved analysis of the physical and chemical properties of materials. However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Hesong Li , Ziqi Wu , Ruiwen Shao , Tao Zhang , Ying Fu

Selection of the correct convergence angle is essential for achieving the highest resolution imaging in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). Use of poor heuristics, such as Rayleigh's quarter-phase rule, to assess probe quality…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-10-29 Noah Schnitzer , Suk Hyun Sung , Robert Hovden

Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) images of regularly arranged spatially periodic objects can be processed crystallographically. The resulting information may be used to remove from the SPM image distortions that are due to a less than…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-16 Peter Moeck

We present a new analysis method for atomic resolution four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM, in which a diffraction pattern is collected at each point of a raster scan of a focused electron beam across the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-11 Yining Xie , Eoin Moynihan , Marin Alexe , Louis Piper , Ana Sanchez , Richard Beanland

Subsampling and fast scanning in the scanning transmission electron microscope is problematic due to scan coil hysteresis - the mismatch between the actual and assumed location of the electron probe beam as a function of the history of the…

Hyperspectral measurements from long range sensors can give a detailed picture of the items, materials, and chemicals in a scene but analysis can be difficult, slow, and expensive due to high spatial and spectral resolutions of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Michael G. Rawson , Timothy Doster

The robust approach for real-time analysis of the scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) data streams, based on the ensemble learning and iterative training (ELIT) of deep convolutional neural networks, is implemented on an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-07-27 Kevin M. Roccapriore , Matthew G. Boebinger , Ondrej Dyck , Ayana Ghosh , Raymond R. Unocic , Sergei V. Kalinin , Maxim Ziatdinov

In this second part of a series we attempt to construct an empirical model that can mimick all experimental observations made regarding the role of an alternative interleaved scan pattern in STEM imaging on the beam damage in a specific…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-03 D. Jannis , A. Velazco , A. Béché , J. Verbeeck

In four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D STEM) a focused beam is scanned over a specimen and a diffraction pattern is recorded at each position using a pixelated detector. During the experiment, it must be ensured…

In this study, the possibility of utilizing a computer vision algorithm, i.e., demons registration, to accurately remap electron backscatter diffraction patterns for high resolution electron backscatter diffraction applications is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-30 Chaoyi Zhu , Kevin Kaufmann , Kenneth Vecchio

Combinations of spectroscopic analysis and microscopic techniques are used across many disciplines of scientific research, including material science, chemistry and biology. X-ray spectromicroscopy, in particular, is a powerful tool used…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Oliver Townsend , Silvia Gazzola , Sergey Dolgov , Paul Quinn

Advancements in fast electron detectors have enabled the statistically significant sampling of crystal structures on the nanometre scale by means of Scanning Electron Nanobeam Diffraction (SEND). Characterisation of structural similarity…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-28 Andy Bridger , William I. F. David , Thomas J. Wood , Mohsen Danaie , Keith T. Butler

Momentum-resolved scanning transmission electron microscopy (MRSTEM) is a powerful phase-contrast technique that can map lateral magnetic and electric fields ranging from the micrometer to the subatomic scale. Resolving fields ranging from…

A real-time image reconstruction method for scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) is proposed. With an algorithm requiring only the center of mass (COM) of the diffraction pattern at one probe position at a time, it is able to…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-15 Chu-Ping Yu , Thomas Friedrich , Daen Jannis , Sandra Van Aert , Johan Verbeeck

Quantitative interpretation of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) data of crystalline specimens often requires the accurate knowledge of the local crystal orientation. A method is presented which exploits momentum-resolved scanning TEM…