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Publications (14)

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Ultraclean suspended graphene by radiolysis of adsorbed water

Hao Wang, Milinda Randeniya, Austin Houston +2

Access to intrinsic properties of a 2D material is challenging due to the absence of a bulk that would dominate over surface contamination, and this lack of bulk also precludes eff…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Atom identification in bilayer moire materials with Gomb-Net

Austin C. Houston, Sumner B. Harris, Hao Wang +4

Moire patterns in van der Waals bilayer materials complicate the analysis of atomic-resolution images, hindering the atomic-scale insight typically attainable with scanning transmi…

physics.ins-det2023

A processing and analytics system for microscopy data workflows: the Pycroscopy ecosystem of packages

Rama Vasudevan, Mani Valleti, Maxim Ziatdinov +2

Major advancements in fields as diverse as biology and quantum computing have relied on a multitude of microscopic techniques. All optical, electron and scanning probe microscopy a…

physics.ins-det2024

Implementing dynamic high-performance computing supported workflows on Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope

Utkarsh Pratiush, Austin Houston, Sergei V Kalinin +1

Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) coupled with Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS) presents a powerful platform for detailed material characterization via rich…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Human-in-the-loop: The future of Machine Learning in Automated Electron Microscopy

Sergei V. Kalinin, Yongtao Liu, Arpan Biswas +5

Machine learning methods are progressively gaining acceptance in the electron microscopy community for de-noising, semantic segmentation, and dimensionality reduction of data post-…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Mic-hackathon 2024: Hackathon on Machine Learning for Electron and Scanning Probe Microscopy

Utkarsh Pratiush, Austin Houston, Kamyar Barakati +70

Microscopy is a primary source of information on materials structure and functionality at nanometer and atomic scales. The data generated is often well-structured, enriched with me…

physics.optics2026

Direct observation of ultrafast defect-bound and free exciton dynamics in defect-engineered WS monolayers

Tae Gwan Park, Xufan Li, Kyungnam Kang +7

Defects in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) broadly affect their optical and electronic properties. Directly capturing the ultrafast processes of exciton tr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

High conduction hopping behavior induced in transition metal dichalcogenides by percolating defect networks: toward atomically thin circuits

Michael G. Stanford, Pushpa R. Pudasaini, Elisabeth T. Gallmeier +11

Atomically thin circuits have recently been explored for applications in next-generation electronics and optoelectronics and have been demonstrated with two-dimensional lateral het…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Building Workflows for Interactive Human in the Loop Automated Experiment (hAE) in STEM-EELS

Utkarsh Pratiush, Kevin M. Roccapriore, Yongtao Liu +3

Exploring the structural, chemical, and physical properties of matter on the nano- and atomic scales has become possible with the recent advances in aberration-corrected electron e…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Ultralight High-Entropy Nanowire Scaffolds for Extreme-Temperature Functionality

Cameron S. Jorgensen, Corisa Kons, William Stallions +3

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) combine compositional disorder with exceptional functional tunability, yet their inherently high-density limits use in lightweight systems. Here, we intr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

From Photons to Electrons: Accelerated Materials Discovery via Random Libraries and Automated Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

Boris Slautin, Kamyar Barakati, Utkarsh Pratiush +10

The real-world implementation of materials prediction algorithms remains limited by persistent characterization bottlenecks in materials discovery, where photon-based probe techniq…

cs.LG2026

Towards Self-Optimizing Electron Microscope: Robust Tuning of Aberration Coefficients via Physics-Aware Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization

Utkarsh Pratiush, Austin Houston, Richard Liu +2

Realizing high-throughput aberration-corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) exploration of atomic structures requires rapid tuning of multipole probe correctors…

quant-ph2025

Roadmap on Atomic-scale Semiconductor Devices

Steven R. Schofield, Andrew J. Fisher, Eran Ginossar +47

Spin states in semiconductors provide exceptionally stable and noise-resistant environments for qubits, positioning them as optimal candidates for reliable quantum computing techno…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Unsupervised Reward-Driven Image Segmentation in Automated Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Experiments

Kamyar Barakati, Utkarsh Pratiush, Austin C. Houston +2

Automated experiments in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) require rapid image segmentation to optimize data representation for human interpretation, decision-making…