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Total-reflection high-energy positron diffraction (TRHEPD) is a novel experimental method for the determination of surface structure, which has been extensively developed at the Slow Positron Facility, Institute of Materials Structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-30 Kazuyuki Tanaka , Izumi Mochizuki , Takashi Hanada , Ayahiko Ichimiya , Toshio Hyodo , Takeo Hoshi

Recent interest in structure solution and refinement using electron diffraction (ED) has been fuelled by its inherent advantages when applied to crystals of sub-micron size, as well as a better sensitivity to light elements. Currently, data…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Anton Cleverley , Richard Beanland

The ability to resolve the dynamics of matter on its native temporal and spatial scales constitutes a key challenge and convergent theme across chemistry, biology, and materials science. The last couple of decades have witnessed ultrafast…

Visualizing molecular transformations in real-time requires a structural retrieval method with {\AA}ngstr\"om spatial and femtosecond temporal atomic resolution. Imaging of hydrogen-containing molecules additionally requires an imaging…

The influence of edge roughness in angle resolved scatterometry at periodically structured surfaces is investigated. A good description of the radiation interaction with structured surfaces is crucial for the understanding of optical…

Optics · Physics 2012-09-11 A. Kato , S. Burger , F. Scholze

Perovskite oxides such as LaFeO$_3$ are a well-studied family of materials that possess a wide range of useful and novel properties. Successfully synthesizing perovskite oxide samples usually requires a significant number of growth attempts…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-09 Patrick T. Gemperline , Rajendra Paudel , Rama K. Vasudevan , Ryan B. Comes

Speden is a computer program that reconstructs the electron density of single particles from their x-ray diffraction patterns, using a single-particle adaptation of the Holographic Method in crystallography. (Szoke, A., Szoke, H., and…

Analysis of distortions of the crystal lattice within individual mineral grains is central to the investigation of microscale processes that control and record tectonic events. These distortions are generally combinations of lattice…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-04 David Wallis , Lars N. Hansen , T. Ben Britton , Angus J. Wilkinson

We describe a UHV setup for grazing incidence fast atom diffraction (GIFAD) experiments. The overall geometry is simply a source of keV atoms facing an imaging detector. Therefore, It is very similar to the geometry of RHEED experiments,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-23 Peng Pan , Jaafar Najafi Rad , Philippe Roncin

Precession Electron Diffraction (PED) offers a number of advantages for crystal structure analysis and solving unknown structures using electron diffraction. The current article uses many-beam simulations of PED intensities, in combination…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-22 W. Sinkler , L. D. Marks

The colliding between an ultra-intense laser pulse with a high energy electron beam is not only an important source for high-brightness gamma-rays but also a powerful approach to exploit new physics in the exotic strong-field QED regime. In…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-08-09 X. S. Geng , L. L. Ji , B. F. Shen , B. Feng , Z. Guo , Q. Yu , L. G. Zhang , Z. Z. Xu

Convergent beam electron diffraction (CBED) performed on two-dimensional (2D) materials recently emerged as a powerful tool to study structural and stacking defects, adsorbates, atomic 3D displacements in the layers, and the interlayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Tatiana Latychevskaia , Sarah Haigh , Kostya Novoselov

Experimentally obtained X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns can be difficult to solve, precluding the full characterization of materials, pharmaceuticals, and geological compounds. Herein, we propose a method based upon a multi-objective…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-09 Stefano Racioppi , Alberto Otero De la Roza , Samad Hajinazar , Eva Zurek

Many fundamental processes of structural changes at surfaces occur on a pico- or femtosecond time scale. In order to study such ultra-fast processes, we have combined modern surface science techniques with fs-laser pulses in a pump-probe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-01 Michael Horn von Hoegen

Convergent beam electron diffraction is routinely applied for studying deformation and local strain in thick crystals by matching the crystal structure to the observed intensity distributions. Recently, it has been demonstrated that CBED…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Tatiana Latychevskaia , Colin Robert Woods , Yi Bo Wang , Matthew Holwill , Eric Prestat , Sarah J. Haigh , Kostya S. Novoselov

Wireless signals are integral to modern society, enabling both communication and increasingly, environmental sensing. While various propagation models exist, ranging from empirical methods to full-wave simulations, the phenomenon of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Anurag Pallaprolu , Winston Hurst , Yasamin Mostofi

Reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) is a powerful tool in molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), but RHEED images are often difficult to interpret, requiring experienced operators. We present an approach for automated surveillance of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-09 Abdourahman Khaireh-Walieh , Alexandre Arnoult , Sébastien Plissard , Peter R. Wiecha

During the last few years, serial electron crystallography (Serial Electron Diffraction, SerialED) has been gaining attention for the structure determination of crystalline compounds that are sensitive to the irradiation of the electron…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-29 Sergi Plana-Ruiz , Penghan Lu , Govind Ummethala , Rafal Dunin-Borkowski

Ultrafast diffraction imaging is a powerful tool to retrieve the geometric structure of gas-phase molecules with combined picometre spatial and attosecond temporal resolution. However, structural retrieval becomes progressively difficult…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Xinyao Liu , Kasra Amini , Aurelien Sanchez , Blanca Belsa , Tobias Steinle , Jens Biegert

The intricate fine structure of Kikuchi diffraction plays a vital role in probing phase transformations and strain distributions in functional materials, particularly in electron microscopy. Beyond these applications, it also proves…