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This work describes extensions to existing level-set algorithms developed for application within the field of Atom Probe Tomography (APT). We present a new simulation tool for the simulation of 3D tomographic volumes, using advanced level…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Daniel Haley , Paul A. J. Bagot , Michael P. Moody

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 ideally suited to characterize and understand the interplay of chemical segregation and microstructure in modern multicomponent materials. Yet, the quantitative analysis typically relies on human expertise to…

Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) is an imaging technique providing the distribution of permittivity in a medium by the mean of electrodes. As for any imaging systems, the reachable spatial resolution is a key parameter. In this paper…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-05 Jérôme Lucas , Cédric Margo , Yacine Oussar , Stéphane Holé

Strontium titanate (STO) possesses promising properties for applications in thermoelectricity, catalysis, fuel cells, and more, but its performance is highly dependent on stoichiometry and impurity levels. While atom probe tomography (APT)…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-22 J. E. Rybak , J. Arlt , B. Gault , C. A. Volkert

Porous microstructures, while central to many functional materials, remain difficult to characterize quantitatively by atom probe tomography (APT). Although several strategies have been proposed over the past decade, most remain constrained…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-28 Lukas Worch , James O. Douglas , Kavin Arunasalam , Baptiste Gault , Valeria Nicolosi , Michele Shelly Conroy

Functional properties of nanomaterials strongly depend on their surface atomic structure, but they often become largely different from their bulk structure, exhibiting surface reconstructions and relaxations. However, most of the surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-01 Juhyeok Lee , Chaehwa Jeong , Yongsoo Yang

Image based diagnostics are interpreted in the context of spatial resolution. The same is true for tomographic image reconstruction. Current empirically driven approaches to quantify spatial resolution rely on a deterministic formulation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Johannes Emmert , Steven Wagner , Kyle J. Daun

Atomic vibrations control all thermally activated processes in materials including diffusion, heat transport, phase transformations, and surface chemistry. Recent developments in monochromated, aberration-corrected scanning transmission…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-08 Kartik Venkatraman , Barnaby D. A. Levin , Katia March , Peter Rez , Peter A. Crozier

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…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Florant Exertier , Levi Tegg , Adam Taylor , Julie M. Cairney , Jing Fu , Ross K. W. Marceau

We report on a new algorithm for detection of crystallographic information in 3D, as retained in Atom Probe Tomography (APT), with improved robustness and signal detection performance. The algorithm is underpinned by 1D distribution…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-22 Daniel Haley , Paul A. J. Bagot , Michael P. Moody

Progress in the reconstruction for atom probe tomography has been limited since the first implementation of the protocol proposed by Bas et al. in 1995. This approach, and those subsequently developed, assume that the geometric parameters…

Atomic time scale imaging, opening a new era for studying dynamics in microcosmos, is presently attracting immense research interesting on the global level due to its powerful ability. On the atom level, physics, chemistry, and biology are…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-19 Jingzhen Li , Yi Cai , Xuanke Zeng , Xiaowei Lu , Qifan Zhu , Yongle Zhu

One of the possible ways to maintain the micrometer spatial resolution while performing ion beam analysis in the air is to increase the energy of ions. In order to explore capabilities and limitations of this approach, we have tested a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-03-13 Milko Jakšić , Davit Chokheli , Stjepko Fazinić , Veljko Grilj , Natko Skukan , Ivan Sudić , Tonči Tadić , Tome Antičić

We demonstrate that the spatial resolution of images in optical tomography is not limited to the fundamental length scale of one transport mean free path. This result is facilitated by the introduction of novel corrections to the standard…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 George Y. Panasyuk , Vadim A. Markel , John C. Schotland

Noninvasive X-ray imaging of nanoscale three-dimensional objects, e.g. integrated circuits (ICs), generally requires two types of scanning: ptychographic, which is translational and returns estimates of complex electromagnetic field through…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Iksung Kang , Ziling Wu , Yi Jiang , Yudong Yao , Junjing Deng , Jeffrey Klug , Stefan Vogt , George Barbastathis

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

Laser enhanced field evaporation of surface atoms in Laser-assisted Atom Probe Tomography (La-APT) can simultaneously excite phtotoluminescence in semiconductor or insulating specimens. An atom probe equipped with appropriate focalization…

This work investigates the parameter estimation performance of super-resolution line spectral estimation using atomic norm minimization. The focus is on analyzing the algorithm's accuracy of inferring the frequencies and complex magnitudes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Qiuwei Li , Gongguo Tang