Characterization techniques for nanoparticles: comparison and complementarity upon studying nanoparticle properties

S Mourdikoudis, RM Pallares, NTK Thanh - Nanoscale, 2018‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Nanostructures have attracted huge interest as a rapidly growing class of materials for many
applications. Several techniques have been used to characterize the size, crystal structure …

Machine learning in electron microscopy for advanced nanocharacterization: current developments, available tools and future outlook

M Botifoll, I Pinto-Huguet, J Arbiol - Nanoscale Horizons, 2022‏ - pubs.rsc.org
In the last few years, electron microscopy has experienced a new methodological paradigm
aimed to fix the bottlenecks and overcome the challenges of its analytical workflow. Machine …

Imaging beam‐sensitive materials by electron microscopy

Q Chen, C Dwyer, G Sheng, C Zhu, X Li… - Advanced …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Electron microscopy allows the extraction of multidimensional spatiotemporally correlated
structural information of diverse materials down to atomic resolution, which is essential for …

Atomic electron tomography: 3D structures without crystals

J Miao, P Ercius, SJL Billinge - Science, 2016‏ - science.org
BACKGROUND To understand material properties and functionality at the most fundamental
level, one must know the three-dimensional (3D) positions of atoms with high precision. For …

Three-dimensional imaging of localized surface plasmon resonances of metal nanoparticles

O Nicoletti, F de La Peña, RK Leary, DJ Holland… - Nature, 2013‏ - nature.com
The remarkable optical properties of metal nanoparticles are governed by the excitation of
localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs). The sensitivity of each LSPR mode, whose …

Atomic-scale determination of surface facets in gold nanorods

B Goris, S Bals, W Van den Broek, E Carbó-Argibay… - Nature materials, 2012‏ - nature.com
It is widely accepted that the physical properties of nanostructures depend on the type of
surface facets,. For Au nanorods, the surface facets have a major influence on crucial effects …

Electron tomography: a three‐dimensional analytic tool for hard and soft materials research

P Ercius, O Alaidi, MJ Rames, G Ren - Advanced materials, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Three‐dimensional (3D) structural analysis is essential to understand the relationship
between the structure and function of an object. Many analytical techniques, such as X‐ray …

Compressed sensing electron tomography

R Leary, Z Saghi, PA Midgley, DJ Holland - Ultramicroscopy, 2013‏ - Elsevier
The recent mathematical concept of compressed sensing (CS) asserts that a small number
of well-chosen measurements can suffice to reconstruct signals that are amenable to sparse …

Recent advances in focused ion beam technology and applications

N Bassim, K Scott, LA Giannuzzi - Mrs Bulletin, 2014‏ - cambridge.org
Focused ion beam microscopes are extremely versatile and powerful instruments for
materials research. These microscopes, when coupled in a system with a scanning electron …

The potential for Bayesian compressive sensing to significantly reduce electron dose in high-resolution STEM images

A Stevens, H Yang, L Carin, I Arslan, ND Browning - Microscopy, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
The use of high-resolution imaging methods in scanning transmission electron microscopy
(STEM) is limited in many cases by the sensitivity of the sample to the beam and the onset of …