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8 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

On Transmission Function Amplitude and Phase Recovery in Multislice Electron Ptychography

Bridget R. Denzer, Colin Gilgenbach, James M. LeBeau

{Multislice electron ptychography commonly accounts for inelastic scattering by including an absorptive object potential in the reconstruction forward model that attenuates the ela…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Direct determination of antiferroelectric-to-ferroelectric phase transition pathways in PbZrO with Operando Electron Microscopy

Menglin Zhu, Michael Xu, Louis Alaerts +5

Under a sufficiently high applied electric field, a non-polar antiferroelectric material, such as \ce{PbZrO3}, can undergo a rapid transformation to a polar ferroelectric phase. Wh…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Operando Electron Microscopy of Nanoscale Electronic Devices on Non-Conductive Substrates

Menglin Zhu, Michael Xu, Zishen Tian +7

Achieving operating conditions comparable to ``bulk'' electronic devices, such as thin film capacitors, during \textit{operando} electron microscopy remains challenging, particular…

physics.comp-ph2025

phaser: A unified and extensible framework for fast electron ptychography

Colin Gilgenbach, Menglin Zhu, James M. LeBeau

We present \code{phaser}, an open-source Python package that provides a unified interface to both conventional and gradient descent-based ptychographic algorithms. Features such as…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Optimizing Atomic Number Contrast in Multislice Electron Ptychography

Bridget R. Denzer, Colin Gilgenbach, James M. LeBeau

Here we explore the atomic number () dependence of multislice electron ptychography and approaches to optimize Z sensitivity. Specifically, we show that ptychography's -depen…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Sensitivity of Multislice Electron Ptychography to Point Defects: A Case Study in SiC

Aaditya Bhat, Colin Gilgenbach, Junghwa Kim +3

Here, we evaluate multislice electron ptychography as a tool to carry out depth-resolved atomic resolution characterization of point defects, using silicon carbide as a case study.…