Imaging beam‐sensitive materials by electron microscopy

Q Chen, C Dwyer, G Sheng, C Zhu, X Li… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Electron microscopy allows the extraction of multidimensional spatiotemporally correlated
structural information of diverse materials down to atomic resolution, which is essential for …

Ptychography

J Rodenburg, A Maiden - Springer Handbook of Microscopy, 2019 - Springer
Ptychography is a computational imaging technique. A detector records an extensive data
set consisting of many inference patterns obtained as an object is displaced to various …

Electron ptychography achieves atomic-resolution limits set by lattice vibrations

Z Chen, Y Jiang, YT Shao, ME Holtz, M Odstrčil… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Transmission electron microscopes use electrons with wavelengths of a few picometers,
potentially capable of imaging individual atoms in solids at a resolution ultimately set by the …

Four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM): From scanning nanodiffraction to ptychography and beyond

C Ophus - Microscopy and Microanalysis, 2019 - cambridge.org
Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) is widely used for imaging, diffraction,
and spectroscopy of materials down to atomic resolution. Recent advances in detector …

Electron ptychography of 2D materials to deep sub-ångström resolution

Y Jiang, Z Chen, Y Han, P Deb, H Gao, S Xie, P Purohit… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Aberration-corrected optics have made electron microscopy at atomic resolution a
widespread and often essential tool for characterizing nanoscale structures. Image …

Direct imaging of local atomic structures in zeolite using optimum bright-field scanning transmission electron microscopy

K Ooe, T Seki, K Yoshida, Y Kohno, Y Ikuhara… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Zeolites are used in industries as catalysts, ion exchangers, and molecular sieves because
of their unique porous atomic structures. However, direct observation of zeolitic local atomic …

Phase contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy imaging of light and heavy atoms at the limit of contrast and resolution

E Yücelen, I Lazić, EGT Bosch - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Using state of the art scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) it is nowadays
possible to directly image single atomic columns at sub-Å resolution. In standard (high …

Low-dose phase retrieval of biological specimens using cryo-electron ptychography

L Zhou, J Song, JS Kim, X Pei, C Huang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cryo-electron microscopy is an essential tool for high-resolution structural studies of
biological systems. This method relies on the use of phase contrast imaging at high defocus …

Observation of formation and local structures of metal-organic layers via complementary electron microscopy techniques

X Peng, PM Pelz, Q Zhang, P Chen, L Cao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Metal-organic layers (MOLs) are highly attractive for application in catalysis, separation,
sensing and biomedicine, owing to their tunable framework structure. However, it is …

Ptychographic measurements of varying size and shape along zeolite channels

H Sha, J Cui, J Li, Y Zhang, W Yang, Y Li, R Yu - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Sub-angstrom resolution imaging of porous materials like zeolites is important to reveal their
structure-property relationships involved in ion exchange, molecule adsorption and …