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

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Achieving 5-angstrom-resolution diffraction contrast with an uncorrected electron probe and nanosized defect characterizations

Yao Li, Austin C. Houston, Ziang Yu +8

Atomic-resolution micrographs remain limited in application due to small field of view and low numbers of recorded defects. Defect imaging with reliable statistics in transmission…

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…

physics.optics2026★ 2 cited

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-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…

cs.LG2026★ 2 cited

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

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…

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2024★ 1 cited

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-sci2024★ 1 cited

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…