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In this article, a new scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image composition technique is described, which can significantly reduce drift related image corruptions. Drift-distortion commonly causes blur and distortions in the SEM images.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-08-09 Petr Cizmar , Andras E. Vladar , Michael T. Postek

The lensless endoscope (LE) is a promising device to acquire in vivo images at a cellular scale. The tiny size of the probe enables a deep exploration of the tissues. Lensless endoscopy with a multicore fiber (MCF) commonly uses a spatial…

STEM imaging is typically performed by raster scanning a focused electron probe over a sample. Here we investigate and compare three different scan patterns, making use of a programmable scan engine that allows to arbitrarily set the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-24 Abner Velazco , Magnus Nord , Armand Béché , Johan Verbeeck

Atomic-resolution imaging with scanning transmission electron microscopy is a powerful tool for characterizing the nanoscale structure of materials, in particular features such as defects, local strains, and symmetry-breaking distortions.…

We examine the problem of selecting a small set of linear measurements for reconstructing high-dimensional signals. Well-established methods for optimizing such measurements include principal component analysis (PCA), independent component…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ling-Qi Zhang , Zahra Kadkhodaie , Eero P. Simoncelli , David H. Brainard

Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) is now the primary tool for exploring functional materials on the atomic level. Often, features of interest are highly localized in specific regions in the material, such as ferroelectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-11 Nicole Creange , Ondrej Dyck , Rama K. Vasudevan , Maxim Ziatdinov , Sergei V. Kalinin

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is carried out in vacuum to minimize the interaction of the imaging electrons with gas molecules while passing through the microscope column. Nevertheless, in typical devices, the pressure remains at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-25 Gregor T. Leuthner , Stefan Hummel , Clemens Mangler , Timothy J. Pennycook , Toma Susi , Jannik C. Meyer , Jani Kotakoski

Increasing the imaging speed is a central aim in photoacoustic tomography. This issue is especially important in the case of sequential scanning approaches as applied for most existing optical detection schemes. In this work we address this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Markus Haltmeier , Thomas Berer , Sunghwan Moon , Peter Burgholzer

Fast scanning probe microscopy enabled via machine learning allows for a broad range of nanoscale, temporally resolved physics to be uncovered. However, such examples for functional imaging are few in number. Here, using piezoresponse force…

X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction from a sparse number of views is a useful way to reduce either the radiation dose or the acquisition time, for example in fixed-gantry CT systems, however this results in an ill-posed inverse…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Alessandro Perelli , Michael Lexa , Ali Can , Mike E. Davies

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an essential medical tool with inherently slow data acquisition process. Slow acquisition process requires patient to be long time exposed to scanning apparatus. In recent years significant efforts are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-05 Jelena Badnjar

Traditional image acquisition for cryo focused ion-beam scanning electron microscopy tomography often sees thousands of images being captured over a period of many hours, with immense data sets being produced. When imaging beam sensitive…

Cryo-electron microscopy (EM) single particle reconstruction is an entirely general technique for 3D structure determination of macromolecular complexes. However, because the images are taken at low electron dose, it is extremely hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Yifeng Fan , Zhizhen Zhao

Electron beam probe (EBP) is a new principle detector, which makes use of a low-intensity and low-energy electron beam to measure the transverse profile, bunch shape, beam neutralization and beam wake field of an intense beam with small…

Analytical Dark Field Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (ADF-STEM) tomography reconstructs nanoscale materials in 3D by integrating multi-view tilt-series images, enabling precise analysis of their structural and compositional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Beiyuan Zhang , Hesong Li , Ruiwen Shao , Ying Fu

The use of fast pixelated detectors and direct electron detection technology is revolutionising many aspects of scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). The widespread adoption of these new technologies is impeded by the technical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-06 Magnus Nord , Robert W. H. Webster , Kirsty A. Paton , Stephen McVitie , Damien McGrouther , Ian MacLaren , Gary W. Paterson

We propose a new scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) technique that can realize the three-dimensional (3D) characterization of vacancies, lighter and heavier dopants with high precision. Using multislice STEM imaging and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-12 Jared M. Johnson , Soohyun Im , Jinwoo Hwang

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 survey a new paradigm in signal processing known as "compressive sensing". Contrary to old practices of data acquisition and reconstruction based on the Shannon-Nyquist sampling principle, the new theory shows that it is possible to…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2009-03-13 Olga Holtz

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has been widely utilized in the field of materials science due to its significant advantages, such as large depth of field, wide field of view, and excellent stereoscopic imaging. However, at high…