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We introduce a phase imaging mechanism for scanning transmission electron microscopy that exploits the complementary intensity changes of transmitted disks at different scattering angles. For scanning transmission electron microscopy, this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-06 Binbin Wang , David W. McComb

Ptychography is an imaging technique in which a localized illumination scans overlapping regions of an object and generates a set of diffraction intensities used to computationally reconstruct its complex-valued transmission function. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Mário Foganholi Fernandes , Leonardo Neves

Ptychographic Coherent Diffractive Imaging enables diffraction-limited imaging of nanoscale structures at extreme ultraviolet and x-ray wavelengths, where high-quality image-forming optics are not available. However, its reliance on a set…

Ptychography enables coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) of extended samples by raster scanning across the illuminating XUV/X-ray beam thereby generalizing the unique advantages of CDI techniques. Table-top realizations of this method are…

Ptychography involves a sample being illuminated by a coherent, localised probe of illumination. When the probe interacts with the sample, the light is diffracted and a diffraction pattern is detected. Then the probe or sample is shifted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Mark Philip Roach

In conventional x-ray ptychography, diffraction data is collected by scanning a sample through a monochromatic, and spatially coherent, x-ray beam. A high-resolution image is then retrieved using an iterative algorithm. Combined with a scan…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-26 Wiebe Stolp , Silvia Cipiccia , Darren Batey , Matthieu Boone

Scanning X-ray nanodiffraction microscopy is a powerful technique for spatially resolving nanoscale structural morphologies by diffraction contrast. One of the critical challenges in experimental nanodiffraction data analysis is posed by…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Aileen Luo , Tao Zhou , Martin V. Holt , Andrej Singer , Mathew J. Cherukara

We study an approach to solving the phase retrieval problem as it arises in a phase-less imaging modality known as ptychography. In ptychography, small overlapping sections of an unknown sample (or signal, say $x_0\in \mathbb{C}^d$) are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Brian Preskitt , Rayan Saab

Ptychography, a form of Coherent Diffractive Imaging, is used with short wavelengths (e.g. X-rays, electron beams) to achieve high-resolution image reconstructions. One of the limiting factors for the reconstruction quality is the accurate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-02 P. Dwivedi , A. P. Konijnenberg , S. F. Pereira , H. P. Urbach

Coherent diffractive imaging is unique as the only route for achieving diffraction-limited spatial resolution in the extreme ultraviolet and X-ray regions, limited only by the wavelength of the light. Recently, advances in coherent short…

Ptychography is a data-intensive computational imaging technique that achieves high spatial resolution over large fields of view. The technique involves scanning a coherent beam across overlapping regions and recording diffraction patterns.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Refik Mert Cam , Junjing Deng , Rajkumar Kettimuthu , Mathew J. Cherukara , Tekin Bicer

Microscopy is one of the most essential imaging techniques in life sciences. High-quality images are required in order to solve (potentially life-saving) biomedical research problems. Many microscopy techniques do not achieve sufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Joris Roels , Jan Aelterman , Jonas De Vylder , Hiep Luong , Yvan Saeys , Wilfried Philips

We report the implementation of a fully on-chip, lensless microscopy technique termed optofluidic ptychography. This imaging modality complements the miniaturization provided by microfluidics and allows the integration of ptychographic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-21 Pengming Song , Chengfei Guo , Shaowei Jiang , Tianbo Wang , Patrick Hu , Derek Hu , Zibang Zhang , Bin Feng , Guoan Zheng

Direct ptychography enables the retrieval of information encoded in the phase of an electron wave passing through a thin sample by deconvolving the interference effects of a converged probe with known aberrations. Under the weak phase…

X-ray Ptychography is an advanced computational microscopy technique which is delivering exceptionally detailed quantitative imaging of biological and nanotechnology specimens. However coarse parametrisation in propagation distance,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Francesco Guzzi , George Kourousias , Fulvio Billè , Roberto Pugliese , Alessandra Gianoncelli , Sergio Carrato

We demonstrate a motion-free intensity diffraction tomography technique that enables direct inversion of 3D phase and absorption from intensity-only measurements for weakly scattering samples. We derive a novel linear forward model,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-26 Ruilong Ling , Waleed Tahir , Hsing-Ying Lin , Hakho Lee , Lei Tian

Ptychographic extreme ultraviolet (EUV) diffractive imaging has emerged as a promising candidate for the next-generation metrology solutions in the semiconductor industry, as it can image wafer samples in reflection geometry at the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Yifeng Shao , Sven Weerdenburg , Jacob Seifert , H. Paul Urbach , Allard P. Mosk , Wim Coene

Ptychography is a computational imaging technique that aims to reconstruct the object of interest from a set of diffraction patterns. Each of these is obtained by a localized illumination of the object, which is shifted after each…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-26 Oleh Melnyk , Patricia Römer

Ptychography, as a powerful lensless imaging method, has become a popular member of the coherent diffractive imaging family over decades of development. The ability to utilize low-dose X-rays and/or fast scans offers a big advantage in a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Longlong Wu , Shinjae Yoo , Yong S. Chu , Xiaojing Huang , Ian K. Robinson

Ptychography is an attractive advance of coherent diffraction imaging (CDI), which can provide high lateral resolution and wide field of view. The theoretical resolution of ptychography is dose-limited, therefore making ptychography…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-01-09 Huixiang Lin , Fucai Zhang