Piezoelectric materials are known to mankind for more than a century, with numerous
advancements made in both scientific understandings and practical applications. In the last …

Electron microscopy allows the extraction of multidimensional spatiotemporally correlated
structural information of diverse materials down to atomic resolution, which is essential for …

Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) is widely used for imaging, diffraction,
and spectroscopy of materials down to atomic resolution. Recent advances in detector …

Van der Waals heteroepitaxy allows deterministic control over lattice mismatch or azimuthal
orientation between atomic layers to produce long-wavelength superlattices. The resulting …

Automated experiments in 4D scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) are
implemented for rapid discovery of local structures, symmetry-breaking distortions, and …

Detectors are revolutionizing possibilities in scanning transmission electron microscopy
because of the advent of direct electron detectors that record at a high quantum efficiency …

We report on a new camera that is based on a pnCCD sensor for applications in scanning
transmission electron microscopy. Emerging new microscopy techniques demand improved …

Radiation damage places a fundamental limitation on the ability of microscopy to resolve
many types of materials at high resolution. Here we evaluate the dose efficiency of phase …

Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) imaging, which has been in use for
many decades, is analyzed mathematically for thin nonmagnetic samples. The result is a …

The recent development of electron-sensitive and pixelated detectors has attracted the use
of four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM). Here, we …