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We introduce a novel reflection-mode diffraction tomography technique that enables simultaneous recovery of forward and backward scattering information for high-resolution 3D refractive index reconstruction. Our technique works by imaging a…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-12 Tongyu Li , Jiabei Zhu , Yi Shen , Lei Tian

As a burgeoning technique, out-of-focus electron ptychography offers the potential for rapidly imaging atomic-scale large fields of view (FoV) using a single diffraction dataset. However, achieving robust out-of-focus ptychographic…

Ptychography is a scanning coherent diffractive imaging technique that enables imaging nanometer-scale features in extended samples. One main challenge is that widely used iterative image reconstruction methods often require significant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Canberk Ekmekci , Tekin Bicer , Zichao Wendy Di , Junjing Deng , Mujdat Cetin

Ptychography is an enabling coherent diffraction imaging technique for both fundamental and applied sciences. Its applications in optical microscopy, however, fall short for its low imaging throughput and limited resolution. Here, we report…

A detailed analysis of ptychography for 3D phase reconstructions of thick specimens is performed. We introduce multi-focus ptychography, which incorporates a 4D-STEM defocus series to enhance the quality of 3D reconstructions along the beam…

Multislice electron ptychography (MEP) is an inverse imaging technique that computationally reconstructs the highest-resolution images of atomic crystal structures from diffraction patterns. Available algorithms often solve this inverse…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Christian K. Belardi , Chia-Hao Lee , Yingheng Wang , Justin Lovelace , Kilian Q. Weinberger , David A. Muller , Carla P. Gomes

Ptychography is now integrated as a tool in mainstream microscopy allowing quantitative and high-resolution imaging capabilities over a wide field of view. However, its ultimate performance is inevitably limited by the available coherent…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Wenhui Xu , Shoucong Ning , Pengju Sheng , Huixiang Lin , Angus I Kirkland , Yong Peng , Fucai Zhang

Table-top extreme ultraviolet (EUV) microscopy offers unique opportunities for label-free investigation of biological samples. Here, we demonstrate ptychographic EUV imaging of two dried, unstained model specimens: germlings of a fungus…

High harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has emerged as a powerful spectroscopic method for resolving ultrafast electron dynamics and band structure properties across a wide range of materials. However, quantitative HHG studies require…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-16 S. Mandal , P. Kumar , Z. Pi , H. Y. Kim , M. Zhan , E. Goulielmakis

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…

We present high-speed and wide-field EUV ptychography at 13.5 nm wavelength using a table-top high-order harmonic source. By employing a scientific complementary metal oxide semiconductor (sCMOS) detector the scan time for sub-20 nm…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-04-26 Wilhelm Eschen , Chang Liu , Daniel S. Penagos Molina , Robert Klas , Jens Limpert , Jan Rothhardt

Ptychography is an imaging technique that captures multiple overlapping snapshots of a sample, illuminated coherently by a moving localized probe. The image recovery from ptychographic data is generally achieved via an iterative algorithm…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Weijie Gan , Qiuchen Zhai , Michael Thompson McCann , Cristina Garcia Cardona , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Brendt Wohlberg

Ptychography in a reflection geometry shows great promise for non-destructive imaging of 3-dimensional nanostructures at the surface of a thick substrate. A major challenge to obtain high quality reflection-ptychographic images under…

We applied a tabletop, ultrafast, high-harmonic generation (HHG) source to measure the element-specific ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) in ultra-thin magnetic alloys and multilayers on an opaque Si substrate. We demonstrate a continuous wave…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-25 Michael Tanksalvala , Anthony Kos , Jacob Wisser , Scott Diddams , Hans T. Nembach , Justin M. Shaw

One of the most prominent challenges in the field of diffractive imaging is the phase retrieval (PR) problem: In order to reconstruct an object from its diffraction pattern, the inverse Fourier transform must be computed. This is only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Simon Welker , Tal Peer , Henry N. Chapman , Timo Gerkmann

We introduce a probabilistic approach to ptychographic reconstruction in computational imaging. Ptychography is an imaging method where the complex amplitude of an object is estimated from a sequence of diffraction measurements. We…

Applications · Statistics 2025-04-09 Hajime Ueda , Shun Katakami , Masato Okada

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

Digital holography (DH) has been widely used for imaging and characterization of micro and nanostructures in materials science and biology and has the potential to provide high-resolution, non-destructive measurements of fluid surfaces as…

A refined model of an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask stack consisting of the Mo/Si multilayer coated by a Ru protective layer and a TaBN/TaBO absorber layer was developed to facilitate accurate simulations of EUV mask performance for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-12-21 I. A. Makhotkin , M. Wu , V. Soltwisch , F. Scholze , V. Philipsen

Ptychography is a popular imaging technique that combines diffractive imaging with scanning microscopy. The technique consists of a coherent beam that is scanned across an object in a series of overlapping positions, leading to reliable and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Samy Wu Fung , Zichao Di