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A method for subsurface visualization and characterization of hidden subsurface nano-structures based on Scanning Tuneling Microscopy/Spectroscopy (STM/STS) has been developed. The nano-objects buried under a metal surface up to several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Oleg Kurnosikov , Muriel Sicot , Emilie Gaudry , Danielle Pierre , Yuan Lu , Stéphane Mangin

The ongoing miniaturization in nanoscience and -technology challenges the sensitivity and selectivity of experimental analysis methods to the ultimate level of single atoms and molecules. A promising new approach, addressed here, focuses on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 Stefan Müllegger , Stefano Tebi , Amal K. Das , Wolfgang Schöfberger , Felix Faschinger , Reinhold Koch

We introduce a novel control mode for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) that leverages di/dz feedback. By superimposing a high-frequency sinusoidal modulation on the control signal, we extract the amplitude of the resulting tunneling…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Richa Mishra , S. O. Reza Moheimani

Lightwave-driven scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) at near-IR frequencies promises an unprecedented combination of atomic spatial resolution and temporal resolution approaching the attosecond range. To achieve this goal, high-sensitivity…

The molecular dark state participates in many important photon-induced processes, yet is typically beyond the optical-spectroscopic measurement due to the forbidden transition dictated by the selection rule. In this work, we propose to use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Guohui Dong , Zhubin Hu , Xiang Sun , Hui Dong

The invention of scanning tunneling microscope (STM) dates back to the work of Binnig and Rohrer in the early 1980s, whose seminal contribution was rewarded by the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics for the design of the scanning tunneling…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Hamed Alemansour , S. O. Reza Moheimani

Fundamental models, trained on large-scale datasets and adapted to new data using innovative learning methods, have revolutionized various fields. In materials science, microstructure image segmentation plays a pivotal role in understanding…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-09 Xudong Ma , Yuqi Zhang , Chenchong Wang , Wei Xu

Multi-tip scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is a powerful method to perform charge transport measurements at the nanoscale. With four STM tips positioned on the surface of a sample, four-point resistance measurements can be performed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-28 A. Leis , V. Cherepanov , B. Voigtländer , F. S. Tautz

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) is indispensable in modern materials science, enabling high-resolution imaging across a wide range of structural, chemical, and functional investigations. However, SEM imaging remains constrained by…

Scanning probe microscopy is one of the most versatile windows into the nanoworld, providing imaging access to a variety of sample properties, depending on the probe employed. Tunneling probes map electronic properties of samples, magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-09 Thomas Häberle , Dominik Schmid-Lorch , Friedemann Reinhard , Jörg Wrachtrup

We present an advanced scanning probe microscopy system enhanced with artificial intelligence (AI-SPM) designed for self-driving atomic-scale measurements. This system expertly identifies and manipulates atomic positions with high…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Zhuo Diao , Keiichi Ueda , Linfeng Hou , Fengxuan Li , Hayato Yamashita , Masayuki Abe

In this article, we present a denoising algorithm to improve the interpretation and quality of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images. Given the high level of self-similarity of STM images, we propose a denoising algorithm by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-12 João P. Oliveira , Ana Bragança , José Bioucas-Dias , Mário Figueiredo , Luís Alcácer , Jorge Morgado , Quirina Ferreira

This study explores the application of Convolutional Autoencoders (CAEs) for analyzing and reconstructing Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) images of various crystalline lattice structures. We developed two distinct CAE architectures to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Peter Binev , Joshua Moorehead , Ayush Parambath , Luke Parrella , Rori Pumphrey , Miruna Savu

We describe a fully ultra-high vacuum compatible scanning tunneling microscope (STM) optimized for radio-frequency signals. It includes in-situ exchangeable tips adapted to high frequency cabling and a standard sample holder, which offer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 Christian Saunus , Jan Raphael Bindel , Marco Pratzer , Markus Morgenstern

This paper describes a novel method for partitioning image into meaningful segments. The proposed method employs watershed transform, a well-known image segmentation technique. Along with that, it uses various auxiliary schemes such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-21 Ankit R. Chadha , Neha S. Satam

Spectroscopic-imaging scanning tunneling microscopy is a powerful technique to study quantum materials, with the ability to provide information about the local electronic structure with subatomic resolution. However, as most spectroscopic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-01-14 Irene Battisti , Gijsbert Verdoes , Kees van Oosten , Koen M. Bastiaans , Milan P. Allan

Machine learning has achieved impressive performance in tomographic reconstruction, but supervised training requires paired measurements and ground-truth images that are often unavailable. This has motivated self-supervised approaches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Markus Haltmeier , Lukas Neumann , Nadja Gruber , Gyeongha Hwang

Automated experiments in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) require rapid image segmentation to optimize data representation for human interpretation, decision-making, site-selective spectroscopies, and atomic manipulation.…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-23 Kamyar Barakati , Utkarsh Pratiush , Austin C. Houston , Gerd Duscher , Sergei V. Kalinin

Compressed sensing (CS) is a valuable technique for reconstructing measurements in numerous domains. CS has not yet gained widespread adoption in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), despite potentially offering the advantages of lower…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Brian E. Lerner , Anayeli Flores-Garibay , Benjamin J. Lawrie , Petro Maksymovych

The nanoparticle size and distribution information in the SEM images of silicon crystals are generally counted by manual methods. The realization of automatic machine recognition is significant in materials science. This paper proposed a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Ruiling Xiao , Jiayang Niu