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Workflow automation of SEM acquisitions and feature tracking. SEM获取和特征跟踪的工作流自动化。

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Ultramicroscopy Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2024.114093

Sabrina Clusiau, Nicolas Piché, Nicolas Brodusch, Mike Strauss, Raynald Gauvin

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State-of-the-art electron beams for compact tools of ultrafast science. 最先进的电子束用于超快科学的紧凑工具。

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Ultramicroscopy Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2024.114080

Peter Salén, Anatoliy Opanasenko, Giovanni Perosa, Vitaliy Goryashko

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Effect of the surrounding environment on electron beam irradiation damage of enhanced green fluorescent protein 周围环境对电子束辐照增强绿色荧光蛋白损伤的影响

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Ultramicroscopy Pub Date : 2024-11-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2024.114082

Haruyoshi Osakabe , Mihiro Suzuki , Toshiki Shimizu , Hiroki Minoda

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Direct electron detection for EBSD of low symmetry & beam sensitive ceramics 用于低对称性和光束敏感陶瓷 EBSD 的直接电子探测

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Ultramicroscopy Pub Date : 2024-11-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2024.114079

Nicolò M. Della Ventura , Andrew R. Ericks , McLean P. Echlin , Kalani Moore , Tresa M. Pollock , Matthew R. Begley , Frank W. Zok , Marc De Graef , Daniel S. Gianola

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Chinese knot inspired isotropic linear scanning method for improved imaging performance in AFM 受中国结启发的各向同性线性扫描方法可提高原子力显微镜的成像性能

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Ultramicroscopy Pub Date : 2024-11-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2024.114081

Xiaolong Jia , Haitao Wu , Qubo Jiang , Qilin Zeng , Wentao Zhang , Yanding Qin

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Toward quantitative thermoelectric characterization of (nano)materials by in-situ transmission electron microscopy 利用原位透射电子显微镜对（纳米）材料进行定量热电表征。

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Ultramicroscopy Pub Date : 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2024.114071

Simon Hettler , Mohammad Furqan , Andrés Sotelo , Raul Arenal

{"title":"Toward quantitative thermoelectric characterization of (nano)materials by in-situ transmission electron microscopy","authors":"Simon Hettler , Mohammad Furqan , Andrés Sotelo , Raul Arenal","doi":"10.1016/j.ultramic.2024.114071","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ultramic.2024.114071","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We explore the possibility to perform an <em>in-situ</em> transmission electron microscopy (TEM) thermoelectric characterization of materials. A differential heating element on a custom <em>in-situ</em> TEM microchip allows to generate a temperature gradient across the studied materials, which are simultaneously measured electrically. A thermovoltage was induced in all studied devices, whose sign corresponds to the sign of the Seebeck coefficient of the tested materials. The results indicate that <em>in-situ</em> thermoelectric TEM studies can help to profoundly understand fundamental aspects of thermoelectricity, which is exemplary demonstrated by tracking the thermovoltage during <em>in-situ</em> crystallization of an amorphous Ge thin film. We propose an improved <em>in-situ</em> TEM microchip design, which should facilitate a full quantitative measurement of the induced temperature gradient, the electrical and thermal conductivities, as well as the Seebeck coefficient. The benefit of the <em>in-situ</em> approach is the possibility to directly correlate the thermoelectric properties with the structure and chemical composition of the entire studied device down to the atomic level, including grain boundaries, dopants or crystal defects, and to trace its dynamic evolution upon heating or during the application of electrical currents.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23439,"journal":{"name":"Ultramicroscopy","volume":"268 ","pages":"Article 114071"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142629442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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New experimental methodology for determining the second crossover energy in insulators under stationary e-irradiation in a SEM 在扫描电子显微镜中确定静态电子辐照下绝缘体第二交叉能的新实验方法。

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Ultramicroscopy Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2024.114069

H. Hammami, S. Fakhfakh

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Beyond the random phase approximation (RPA): First principles calculation of the valence EELS spectrum for KBr including local field, quasiparticle, excitonic and spin orbit coupling effects 超越随机相近似 (RPA)：KBr 价电子能谱的第一性原理计算，包括局部场、准粒子、激子和自旋轨道耦合效应。

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Ultramicroscopy Pub Date : 2024-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2024.114070

V.J. Keast

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A high-performance reconstruction method for partially coherent ptychography 部分相干层析成像的高性能重建方法

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Ultramicroscopy Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2024.114068

Wenhui Xu , Shoucong Ning , Pengju Sheng , Huixiang Lin , Angus I Kirkland , Yong Peng , Fucai Zhang

{"title":"A high-performance reconstruction method for partially coherent ptychography","authors":"Wenhui Xu , Shoucong Ning , Pengju Sheng , Huixiang Lin , Angus I Kirkland , Yong Peng , Fucai Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.ultramic.2024.114068","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ultramic.2024.114068","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ptychography is now integrated as a tool in mainstream microscopy allowing quantitative and high-resolution imaging capabilities over a wide field of view. However, its ultimate performance is inevitably limited by the available coherent flux when implemented using electrons or laboratory X-ray sources. We present a universal reconstruction algorithm with high tolerance to low coherence for both far-field and near-field ptychography. The approach is practical for partial temporal and spatial coherence and requires no <em>prior</em> knowledge of the source properties. Our initial visible-light and electron data show that the method can dramatically improve the reconstruction quality and accelerate the convergence rate of the reconstruction. The approach also integrates well into existing ptychographic engines. It can also improve mixed-state and numerical monochromatisation methods, requiring a smaller number of coherent modes or lower dimensionality of Krylov subspace while providing more stable and faster convergence. We propose that this approach could have significant impact on ptychography of weakly scattering samples.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23439,"journal":{"name":"Ultramicroscopy","volume":"267 ","pages":"Article 114068"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142554993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A simple circularity-based approach for nanoparticle size histograms beyond the spherical approximation 超越球面近似的基于圆度的纳米粒子尺寸直方图简单方法。

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Ultramicroscopy Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2024.114067

Florent Tournus

{"title":"A simple circularity-based approach for nanoparticle size histograms beyond the spherical approximation","authors":"Florent Tournus","doi":"10.1016/j.ultramic.2024.114067","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ultramic.2024.114067","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Conventional Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) is widely used for routine characterization of the size and shape of an assembly of (nano)particles. While the most basic approach only uses the projected area of each particle to infer its size (the “circular equivalent diameter” corresponding to the so-called “spherical approximation”), other shape descriptors can be determined and used for more elaborate analyses. In this article we present a generic model of particles, considered to be made of a few individual grains, and show how the equivalent size (i.e. a particle volume information) can be reliably deduced using only two basic parameters: the projected area and the perimeter of a particle. We compare this simple model to the spherical and ellipsoidal approximations and discuss its benefits. Then, partial coalescence of grains in a particle is also considered and we show how a simple analytical approximation, based on the circularity parameter of each particle, can improve the experimental determination of a particle size histogram. The analysis of experimental observations on nanoparticles assemblies obtained by mass-selected cluster deposition is presented, to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed approach for the determination of particle size just from conventional TEM images. We show how the presence of multimers offers an excellent opportunity to validate our improved and simple procedure. In addition, since the circularity plays a central role in this approach, attention is attracted on the perimeter determination in a pixelated image.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23439,"journal":{"name":"Ultramicroscopy","volume":"268 ","pages":"Article 114067"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142606606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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