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Reconstructing the Scattering Matrix from Scanning Electron Diffraction Measurements Alone

Computational Physics 2021-06-02 v1 Optimization and Control

Abstract

Three-dimensional phase contrast imaging of multiply-scattering samples in X-ray and electron microscopy is extremely challenging, due to small numerical apertures, the unavailability of wavefront shaping optics, and the highly nonlinear inversion required from intensity-only measurements. In this work, we present a new algorithm using the scattering matrix formalism to solve the scattering from a non-crystalline medium from scanning diffraction measurements, and recover the illumination aberrations. Our method will enable 3D imaging and materials characterization at high resolution for a wide range of materials.

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@article{arxiv.2008.12768,
  title  = {Reconstructing the Scattering Matrix from Scanning Electron Diffraction Measurements Alone},
  author = {Philipp M Pelz and Hamish G Brown and Jim Ciston and Scott D Findlay and Yaqian Zhang and Mary Scott and Colin Ophus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.12768},
  year   = {2021}
}
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