Measuring Spatially‐Resolved Potential Drops at Semiconductor Hetero‐Interfaces Using 4D‐STEM

VS Chejarla, S Ahmed, J Belz, J Scheunert… - Small …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Characterizing long‐range electric fields and built‐in potentials in functional materials at
nano to micrometer scales is of supreme importance for optimizing devices, eg, the …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring electrical properties in semiconductor devices by pixelated STEM and off-axis electron holography (or convergent beams vs. plane waves).

D Cooper, L Bruas, M Bryan, V Boureau - Micron, 2024 - Elsevier
We demonstrate the use of both pixelated differential phase contrast (DPC) scanning
transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and off-axis electron holography (EH) for the …

Imaging built-in electric fields and light matter by Fourier-precession TEM

T Lorenzen, B März, T Xue, A Beyer, K Volz, T Bein… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
We report the precise measurement of electric fields in nanostructures, and high-contrast
imaging of soft matter at ultralow electron doses by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) …

GaN atomic electric fields from a segmented STEM detector: Experiment and simulation

T Grieb, FF Krause, T Mehrtens, C Mahr… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Atomic electric fields in a thin GaN sample are measured with the centre‐of‐mass approach
in 4D‐scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D‐STEM) using a 12‐segmented STEM …

Random forest prediction of crystal structure from electron diffraction patterns incorporating multiple scattering

SP Gleason, A Rakowski, SM Ribet, SE Zeltmann… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
Diffraction is the most common method to solve for unknown or partially known crystal
structures. However, it remains a challenge to determine the crystal structure of a new …

Uncovering polar vortex structures by inversion of multiple scattering with a stacked Bloch wave model

SE Zeltmann, SL Hsu, HG Brown, S Susarla… - Ultramicroscopy, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanobeam electron diffraction can probe local structural properties of complex crystalline
materials including phase, orientation, tilt, strain, and polarization. Ideally, each diffraction …

Impact of beam size and diffraction effects in the measurement of long-range electric fields in crystalline samples via 4DSTEM

D Heimes, VS Chejarla, S Ahmed, F Hüppe, A Beyer… - Ultramicroscopy, 2023 - Elsevier
Measuring long-range electric fields by 4-dimensional scanning transmission electron
microscopy (4DSTEM) is on the verge to becoming an established method, though …

Benchmarking analytical electron ptychography methods for the low-dose imaging of beam-sensitive materials

HLL Robert, ML Leidl, K Müller-Caspary… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
This publication presents an investigation of the performance of different analytical electron
ptychography methods for low-dose imaging. In particular, benchmarking is performed for …

[PDF][PDF] Measuring electric fields with 4D-STEM: Demonstration of pitfalls by the example of GaN and SiGe

T Grieb, C Mahr, FF Krause… - BIO Web of …, 2024 - bio-conferences.org
Background The development of fast pixel-based detectors in (scanning) transmission
electron microscopy ((S) TEM) has resulted in 4D-STEM becoming almost a standard tool …

Electronic and Structural Properties of Heterojunctions in Solar Cells studied by In-situ and Analytical Transmission Electron Microscopy

C Flathmann - 2023 - ediss.uni-goettingen.de
The initial research and development of solar cells was mainly motivated by the need to
generate power for satellites 1. Nowadays, the principal application of solar cells has greatly …