Catalysts are the primary facilitator in many dynamic processes. Therefore, a thorough
understanding of these processes has vast implications for a myriad of energy systems. The …

Mobile charge carriers are essential components in high-performance, nano-engineered
semiconductor devices. Employing charge carriers confined to heterointerfaces, the so …

Material properties are sensitive to atomistic structure defects such as vacancies or
impurities, and it is therefore important to determine not only the local atomic configuration …

The combination of III/V semiconductors with Si is very attractive, since it allows the
fabrication of high efficient optoelectronic devices like solar cells, lasers or the integration of …

Statistical noise, or shot noise, dominates experimental image quality in scanning
transmission electron microscopy because efficiencies of recent detectors are close to ideal …

Most of today's electronic devices, like solar cells and batteries, are based on nanometer-
scale built-in electric fields. Accordingly, characterization of fields at such small scales has …

Probing the charge density distributions in materials at atomic scale remains an extremely
demanding task, particularly in real space. However, recent advances in differential phase …

Differential-phase-contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy (DPC STEM) is a
technique to directly visualize local electromagnetic field distribution inside materials and …

Antiferromagnetic imaging is critical for understanding and optimizing the properties of
antiferromagnetic materials and devices. Despite the widespread use of high-energy …

Differential phase contrast (DPC) in scanning transmission electron microscopy can be used
to visualize electric field distributions within specimens in real space. However, for electric …