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20182026
most citedCoherent X-ray measurement of step-flow propagation during growth on polycrystalline thin film surfaces

24 citations · 55 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.SE2026

Strategies for Deploying AI Agents in Production at Scientific User Facilities

Ming Du, Xiangyu Yin, Michael Prince +40

Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is moving beyond research demonstrations toward production use at scientific user facilities, including light sources, neutron sources, nanosci…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Pty-Chi: A PyTorch-based modern ptychographic data analysis package

Ming Du, Hanna Ruth, Steven Henke +11

Ptychography has become an indispensable tool for high-resolution, non-destructive imaging using coherent light sources. The processing of ptychographic data critically depends on…

physics.optics2024★ 6 cited

Three-dimensional Hard X-ray Ptychographic Reflectometry Imaging on Extended Mesoscopic Surface Structures

Peco Myint, Ashish Tripathi, Michael J. Wojcik +7

Many nano and quantum devices, with their sizes often spanning from millimeters down to sub-nanometer, have intricate low-dimensional, non-uniform, or hierarchical structures on su…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Coherent X-ray Spectroscopy Elucidates Nanoscale Dynamics of Plasma-Enhanced Thin-Film Growth

Peco Myint, Jeffrey M. Woodward, Chenyu Wang +6

Sophisticated thin film growth techniques increasingly rely on the addition of a plasma component to open or widen a processing window, particularly at low temperatures. However, t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Local step-flow dynamics in thin film growth with desorption

Xiaozhi Zhang, Jeffrey G. Ulbrandt, Peco Myint +6

Desorption of deposited species plays a role in determining the evolution of surface morphology during crystal growth when the desorption time constant is short compared to the tim…

physics.comp-ph2022★ 4 cited

Multislice forward modeling of Coherent Surface Scattering Imaging on surface and interfacial structures

Peco Myint, Miaoqi Chu, Ashish Tripathi +6

To study nanostructures on substrates, surface-sensitive reflection-geometry scattering techniques such as grazing incident small angle x-ray scattering are commonly used to yield…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 5 cited

Measurement of Ehrlich-Schwoebel barrier contribution to the self-organized formation of ordered surface patterns on Ge(001)

Peco Myint, Denise Erb, Xiaozhi Zhang +6

Normal incidence 1 keV Ar ion bombardment leads to amorphization and ultrasmoothing of Ge at room temperature, but at elevated temperatures the Ge surface remains crystalline a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 7 cited

Nanoscale dynamics during self-organized ion beam patterning of Si: II. Kr Bombardment

Peco Myint, Karl F. Ludwig, Lutz Wiegart +4

Despite extensive study, fundamental understanding of self-organized patterning by broad-beam ion bombardment is still incomplete and controversial. Understanding the nanopatternin…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 7 cited

Nanoscale dynamics during self-organized ion beam patterning of Si: I. Ar Bombardment

Peco Myint, Karl F. Ludwig, Lutz Wiegart +4

Coherent grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering is used to investigate the average kinetics and the fluctuation dynamics during self-organized nanopatterning of silicon by…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 24 cited

Coherent X-ray measurement of step-flow propagation during growth on polycrystalline thin film surfaces

Randall L. Headrick, Jeffrey G. Ulbrandt, Peco Myint +6

The properties of artificially grown thin films are strongly affected by surface processes during growth. Coherent X-rays provide an approach to better understand such processes an…