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most citedDepth mapping of metallic nanowire polymer nanocomposites by scanning dielectric microscopy

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Dynamics of Null and Electrostatic Blind Spots for Quantitative PFM

Marti Checa, Holland Swicegood, Ruben Millan-Solsona +5

Piezoresponse force microscopy is a cornerstone technique for probing nanoscale electromechanical phenomena, yet quantitative and in some cases qualitative interpretation remains h…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

AEcroscopyWave: Towards Self-Driving Characterization Platforms for Agentic AI

Yongtao Liu, Jawad Chowdhury, Ganesh Narasimha +8

The characterization of electronic materials has traditionally been stratified into two distinct regimens: industry-scale automated systems to inspect materials for defects and ens…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

Altermagnetic Signatures and Topological Textures in Ultrathin Multiferroic BiFeO

George Fratian, Geo Fratian, Maya Ramesh +33

Magnetoelectric multiferroics promise low-power switching, nonvolatile memory, and signal transduction, yet practical deployment requires ultrathin films where polar and magnetic o…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Auto-3DPFM: Automating Polarization-Vector Mapping at the Nanoscale

Ralph Bulanadi, Marti Checa, Michelle Wang +9

The functional properties of ferroelectric materials are strongly influenced by ferroelectric polarization orientation; as such, access to consistent and precise characterization o…

eess.IV2025

A Fourier-Based Global Denoising Model for Smart Artifacts Removing of Microscopy Images

Huanhuan Zhao, Connor Vernachio, Laxmi Bhurtel +9

Microscopy such as Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) are essential tools in material imaging at micro- and n…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Ferroelastic Domain Induced Electronic Modulation in Halide Perovskites

Ganesh Narasimha, Maryam Bari, Benjamin J Lawrie +6

Lead halide perovskites have emerged as promising materials for optoelectronic applications due to their exceptional properties. In the all-inorganic CsPbBr3 perovskites, ferroelas…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Defect Engineering in Large-Scale CVD-Grown Hexagonal Boron Nitride: Formation, Spectroscopy, and Spin Relaxation Dynamics

Ivan V. Vlassiouk, Yueh-Chun Wu, Alexander Puretzky +19

Recently, numerous techniques have been reported for generating optically active defects in exfoliated hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), which hold transformative potential for quantu…

eess.IV2025

A Bi-channel Aided Stitching of Atomic Force Microscopy Images

Huanhuan Zhao, Ruben Millan-Solsona, Marti Checa +4

Microscopy is an essential tool in scientific research, enabling the visualization of structures at micro- and nanoscale resolutions. However, the field of microscopy often encount…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 5 cited

Hierarchical domain structures in buckled ferroelectric free sheets

David Pesquera, Kumara Cordero-Edwards, Marti Checa +11

Flat elastic sheets tend to display wrinkles and folds. From pieces of clothing down to two-dimensional crystals, these corrugations appear in response to strain generated by sheet…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

Evolution of ferroelectric properties in SmxBi1-xFeO3 via automated Piezoresponse Force Microscopy across combinatorial spread libraries

Aditya Raghavan, Rohit Pant, Ichiro Takeuchi +6

Combinatorial spread libraries offer a unique approach to explore evolution of materials properties over the broad concentration, temperature, and growth parameter spaces. However,…

cs.HC2024★ 2 cited

Synergizing Human Expertise and AI Efficiency with Language Model for Microscopy Operation and Automated Experiment Design

Yongtao Liu, Marti Checa, Rama K. Vasudevan

With the advent of large language models (LLMs), in both the open source and proprietary domains, attention is turning to how to exploit such artificial intelligence (AI) systems i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 1 cited

AEcroscoPy: A software-hardware framework empowering microscopy toward automated and autonomous experimentation

Yongtao Liu, Kevin Roccapriore, Marti Checa +4

Microscopy, in particular scanning probe and electron microscopy, has been pivotal in improving our understanding of structure-function relationships at the nanoscale and is by now…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 13 cited

Depth mapping of metallic nanowire polymer nanocomposites by scanning dielectric microscopy

H. Balakrishnan, R. Millan-Solsona, M. Checa +3

Polymer nanocomposite materials based on metallic nanowires are widely investigated as transparent and flexible electrodes or as stretchable conductors and dielectrics for biosensi…