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Atom probe tomography (APT) is a powerful microscopy technique to characterize nano-sized clusters of the alloying elements in the bulk of reactor pressure vessel (RPV) steels. These clusters are known to dominantly determine the evolution…

Bone structure is generally hierarchically organized into organic (collagen, proteins,...), inorganic (hydroxyapatite (HAP)) components. However, many fundamental mechanisms of the biomineralization processes such as HAP formation, the…

Atom probe tomography is often introduced as providing "atomic-scale" mapping of the composition of materials and as such is often exploited to analyse atomic neighbourhoods within a material. Yet quantifying the actual spatial performance…

Atom probe tomography is frequently employed to characterize the elemental distribution in solids with atomic resolution. Here we review and discuss the potential of this technique to locally probe chemical bonds. Two processes characterize…

Atom probe tomography (APT) is routinely used for analyzing property-enhancing particles in the nanometer-size range and below, and plays a prominent role in the analysis of solute clusters. However, the question of how well these small…

Atom probe tomography (APT) helps elucidate the link between the nanoscale chemical variations and physical properties, but it has limited structural resolution. Field ion microscopy (FIM), a predecessor technique to APT, is capable of…

As hydrogen is touted as a key player in the decarbonization of modern society, it is critical to enable quantitative H analysis at high spatial resolution, if possible at the atomic scale. Indeed, H has a known deleterious impact on the…

There has been an increasing interest in atom probe tomography (APT) to characterise hydrated and biological materials. A major benefit of APT compared to microscopy techniques more commonly used in biology is its combination of outstanding…

Volumetric crystal structure indexing and orientation mapping are key data processing steps for virtually any quantitative study of spatial correlations between the local chemistry and the microstructure of a material. For electron and…

Atom probe tomography (APT) is extensively used to measure the local chemistry of materials. Site-specific preparation via a focused ion beam (FIB) is routinely implemented to fabricate needle-shaped specimens with an end radius in the…

Photonic crystal nanobeam cavities are valued for their small mode volume, CMOS compatibility, and high coupling efficiency crucial features for various low-power photonic applications and quantum information processing. However, despite…

Radiative cooling has recently revived due to its significant potential as an environmentally friendly cooling technology. However, the design of particle-matrix cooling nanocomposites was generally carried out via tedious trial-and-error…

Laser-assisted atom probe tomography (APT) was used to measure the indium mole fraction x of c-plane, MOCVD-grown, GaN/In(x)Ga(1-x)N/GaN test structures and the results were compared with Rutherford backscattering analysis (RBS). Four…

Reducing coating thermal noise in future gravitational-wave detectors requires identifying the atomic motifs that control mechanical loss in amorphous optical coatings. We combine grazing-incidence X-ray pair distribution function…

The microstructural characteristics of soot generated during thermal runaway events in lithium-ion batteries have been examined, with a focus on the associated health risks. X-ray computed tomography (Nano-CT) offers advanced 3D imaging for…

Grain boundaries (GBs) are planar lattice defects that govern the properties of many types of polycrystalline materials. Hence, their structures have been investigated in great detail. However, much less is known about their chemical…

The early stage of the chromium precipitation in copper was analyzed at the atomic scale by Atom Probe Tomography (APT). Quantitative data about the precipitate size, 3D shape, density, composition and volume fraction were obtained in a…

Cadmium telluride (CdTe), lead sulfide (PbS), and indium tin oxide (ITO) play crucial roles in various electronic applications where laser treatment enables precise modification of their distinctive electronic characteristics. This study…

Atomic probe tomography (APT), based on the work of Erwin Mueller, is able to generate three-dimensional chemical maps in atomic resolution. The required instruments for APT have evolved over the last 20 years from an experimental to an…

Atomic monolayers represent a novel class of materials to study localized and free excitons in two dimensions and to engineer optoelectronic devices based on their significant optical response. Here, we investigate the role of the substrate…