activity
20202026
most citedIterative Phase Retrieval Algorithms for Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

30 citations · 104 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

28 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Real-space overlap is not enough: ambiguity in nanobeam iterative ptychography

Stephanie M. Ribet, Mohsen Danaie, Willem P. M. de Kleijne +5

High-resolution iterative ptychography typically relies on a well-aligned, high-convergence-angle electron probe. Here we explore whether it can instead be performed at small conve…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Nanocrystal Geometry Governs Phase Transformation Pathways in Palladium Hydride

Daewon Lee, Sam Oaks-Leaf, Hyeonjong Ma +14

Pathways and structural dynamics of phase transformations impact performance of materials in energy and information storage technologies. Palladium hydride () nanoc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Unsupervised segmentation and clustering workflow for efficient processing of 4D-STEM and 5D-STEM data

Serin Lee, Stephanie M. Ribet, Arthur R. C. McCray +3

Four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM) enables mapping of diffraction information with nanometer-scale spatial resolution, offering detailed insight i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

TEM Agent: enhancing transmission electron microscopy (TEM) with modern AI tools

Morgan K. Wall, Alexander J. Pattison, Edward S. Barnard +2

Recent improvements in large language models (LLMs) have had a dramatic effect on capabilities and productivity across many disciplines involving critical thinking and writing. The…

eess.IV2025★ 2 cited

Deep generative priors for robust and efficient electron ptychography

Arthur R. C. McCray, Stephanie M. Ribet, Georgios Varnavides +1

Electron ptychography enables dose-efficient atomic-resolution imaging, but conventional reconstruction algorithms suffer from noise sensitivity, slow convergence, and extensive ma…

physics.bio-ph2025

New avenues for characterizing individual mineralized collagen fibrils with transmission electron microscopy

Tatiana Kochetkova, Stephanie M. Ribet, Lilian M. Vogl +5

Bone serves as a remarkable example of nature's architectured material with its unique blend of strength and toughness, all at a lightweight design. Given the hierarchical nature o…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

Programmable Beam Control for Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy and Ptychography

Mariana Palos, Liam Spillane, Geri Topore +5

Programmable electron-beam scanning offers new opportunities to improve dose efficiency and suppress scan-induced artifacts in scanning transmission electron microscopy. Here, we s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

High-current p-type transistors from precursor-engineered synthetic monolayer WSe

Anh Tuan Hoang, Kathryn Neilson, Kaikui Xu +11

Monolayer tungsten diselenide (WSe) is a leading candidate for nanoscale complementary logic. However, high defect densities introduced during thin-film growth and device fabri…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Beyond Contrast Transfer: Spectral SNR as a Dose-Aware Metric for STEM Phase Retrieval

Georgios Varnavides, Julie Marie Bekkevold, Stephanie M Ribet +3

The contrast transfer function (CTF) is widely used to evaluate phase retrieval methods in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), including center-of-mass imaging, paral…

physics.optics2025

Relaxing Direct Ptychography Sampling Requirements via Parallax Imaging Insights

Georgios Varnavides, Julie Marie Bekkevold, Stephanie M Ribet +3

Direct ptychography enables the retrieval of information encoded in the phase of an electron wave passing through a thin sample by deconvolving the interference effects of a conver…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Quantitative structure determination from experimental four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy via the scattering matrix

Emmanuel W. C. Terzoudis-Lumsden, Alireza Sadri, Matthew Weyland +6

Considerable inroads have recently been made on algorithms to determine the sample potential from four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy data from thick samples…

physics.ins-det2025★ 7 cited

Multi-angle precession electron diffraction (MAPED): a versatile approach to 4D-STEM precession

Stephanie M. Ribet, Rohan Dhall, Colin Ophus +1

Precession of a converged beam during acquisition of a 4D-STEM dataset improves strain, orientation, and phase mapping accuracy by averaging over continuous angles of illumination.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Fabrication and characterization of boron-terminated tetravacancies in monolayer hBN using STEM, EELS and electron ptychography

Dana O. Byrne, Stephanie M. Ribet, Demie Kepaptsoglou +3

Tetravacancies in monolayer hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) with consistent edge termination (boron or nitrogen) form triangular nanopores with electrostatic potentials that can be l…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

PhaseT3M: 3D Imaging at 1.6 Å Resolution via Electron Cryo-Tomography with Nonlinear Phase Retrieval

Juhyeok Lee, Samuel W. Song, Min Gee Cho +5

Electron cryo-tomography (cryo-ET) enables 3D imaging of complex, radiation-sensitive structures with molecular detail. However, image contrast from the interference of scattered e…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Mapping strain and structural heterogeneities around bubbles in amorphous ionically conductive BiO

Ellis Rae Kennedy, Stephanie M. Ribet, Ian S. Winter +5

While amorphous materials are often approximated to have a statistically homogeneous atomic structure, they frequently exhibit localized structural heterogeneity that challenges si…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Neutral but Impactful: Gallium Cluster-Induced Nanopores from Beam-Blanked Gallium Ion Sources

Dana O. Byrne, Stephanie M. Ribet, Karen C. Bustillo +2

Neutral atoms emitted from liquid metal ion sources are an often-overlooked source of contamination and damage in focused ion beam microscopy. Beyond ions and single atoms, these s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

BEACON -- Automated Aberration Correction for Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy using Bayesian Optimization

Alexander J. Pattison, Stephanie M. Ribet, Marcus M. Noack +6

Aberration correction is an important aspect of modern high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy. Most methods of aligning aberration correctors require specialized…

physics.ins-det2024

Streaming Large-Scale Electron Microscopy Data to a Supercomputing Facility

Samuel S. Welborn, Chris Harris, Stephanie M. Ribet +4

Data management is a critical component of modern experimental workflows. As data generation rates increase, transferring data from acquisition servers to processing servers via co…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Tailored topotactic chemistry unlocks heterostructures of magnetic intercalation compounds

Samra Husremović, Oscar Gonzalez, Berit H. Goodge +15

The construction of thin film heterostructures has been a widely successful archetype for fabricating materials with emergent physical properties. This strategy is of particular im…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Random Forest Prediction of Crystal Structure from Electron Diffraction Patterns Incorporating Multiple Scattering

Samuel P. Gleason, Alexander Rakowski, Stephanie M. Ribet +5

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 materi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 20 cited

Formation and Microwave Losses of Hydrides in Superconducting Niobium Thin Films Resulting from Fluoride Chemical Processing

Carlos G. Torres-Castanedo, Dominic P. Goronzy, Thang Pham +18

Superconducting Nb thin films have recently attracted significant attention due to their utility for quantum information technologies. In the processing of Nb thin films, fluoride-…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 20 cited

Uncovering the Three-Dimensional Structure of Upconverting Core-Shell Nanoparticles with Multislice Electron Ptychography

Stephanie M. Ribet, Georgios Varnavides, Cassio C. S. Pedroso +4

In photon upconverting core-shell nanoparticles, structure strongly dictates performance. Conventional imaging in scanning transmission electron microscopy has sufficient resolutio…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 30 cited

Iterative Phase Retrieval Algorithms for Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

Georgios Varnavides, Stephanie M. Ribet, Steven E. Zeltmann +7

Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) has been extensively used for imaging complex materials down to atomic resolution. The most commonly employed STEM modality, annula…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Design of Electrostatic Aberration Correctors for Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

Stephanie M. Ribet, Steven E. Zeltmann, Karen C. Bustillo +6

In a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM), producing a high-resolution image generally requires an electron beam focused to the smallest point possible. However, the ma…