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Real-space imaging of three-dimensional atomic structures is a critical yet challenging task in materials science. Although scanning transmission electron microscopy has achieved sub-angstrom lateral resolution through techniques like…

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

Ptychography is a lensless imaging technique, which considers reconstruction from a set of far-field diffraction patterns obtained by illuminating small overlapping regions of the specimen. In many cases, a distribution of light inside the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Frank Filbir , Oleh Melnyk

Transmission electron microscopes use electrons with wavelengths of a few picometers, potentially capable of imaging individual atoms in solids at a resolution ultimately set by the intrinsic size of an atom. Unfortunately, due to…

Fourier ptychography has attracted a wide range of focus for its ability of large space-bandwidth-produce, and quantative phase measurement. It is a typical computational imaging technique which refers to optimizing both the imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-08 Guocheng Zhou , Shaohui Zhang , Yao Hu , Lei Cao , Yong Huang , Qun Hao

In this work, we present and investigate the novel blind inverse problem of position-blind ptychography, i.e., ptychographic phase retrieval without any knowledge of scan positions, which then must be recovered jointly with the image. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Simon Welker , Lorenz Kuger , Tim Roith , Berthy Feng , Martin Burger , Timo Gerkmann , Henry Chapman

Multislice ptychography is a high-resolution microscopy technique used to image multiple separate axial planes using a single illumination direction. However, multislice ptychography reconstructions are often degraded by crosstalk, where…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-03 Ming Du , Xiaojing Huang , Chris Jacobsen

Ptychography has risen as a reference X-ray imaging technique: it achieves resolutions of one billionth of a meter, macroscopic field of view, or the capability to retrieve chemical or magnetic contrast, among other features. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-10 Huibin Chang , Pable Enfedaque , Stefano Marchesini

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…

Electron ptychography enables dose-efficient atomic-resolution imaging, but conventional reconstruction algorithms suffer from noise sensitivity, slow convergence, and extensive manual hyperparameter tuning for regularization, especially in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Arthur R. C. McCray , Stephanie M. Ribet , Georgios Varnavides , Colin Ophus

Fourier ptychography (FP) is a recently proposed computational imaging technique for high space-bandwidth product imaging. In real setups such as endoscope and transmission electron microscope, the common sample motion largely degrades the…

We propose algorithms based on an optimisation method for inverse multislice ptychography in, e.g. electron microscopy. The multislice method is widely used to model the interaction between relativistic electrons and thick specimens. Since…

We have demonstrated the capability of spectral multiplexing in multi-distance diffractive imaging, enabling the reconstruction of samples with diverse spectral responses. While previous methods like ptychography utilize redundancy in…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-31 Qijun You , Lingshuo Meng , Yun Gao , Qing Liao , Wei Cao , Peixiang Lu

Ptychography is a well-established coherent diffraction imaging technique that enables non-invasive imaging of samples at a nanometer scale. It has been extensively used in various areas such as the defense industry or materials science.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Semih Barutcu , Doğa Gürsoy , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

In order to determine the 3D structure of a thick sample, researchers have recently combined ptychography (for high resolution) and tomography (for 3D imaging) in a single experiment. 2-step methods are usually adopted for reconstruction,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Huibin Chang , Pablo Enfedaque , Stefano Marchesini

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

Electron matter interactions in electron microscopy produce both elastic and inelastic scattering, forming the basis for imaging and spectroscopy. However, the integration of electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) with 4D-STEM and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-22 Yu Lei , Peng Wang

Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a recently developed imaging modality that uses angularly varying illumination to extend a system performance beyond the limit defined by its optical elements. The FPM technique applies a novel…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-02 Xiaoze Ou , Roarke Horstmeyer , Changhuei Yang , Guoan Zheng

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

Fourier ptychographic microscopy allows for the collection of images with a high space-bandwidth product at the cost of temporal resolution. In Fourier ptychographic microscopy, the light source of a conventional widefield microscope is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-30 Yi Fei Cheng , Megan Strachan , Zachary Weiss , Moniher Deb , Dawn Carone , Vidya Ganapati