Assessment of active dopants and p–n junction abruptness using in situ biased 4D-STEM

BC da Silva, Z Sadre Momtaz, E Monroy, H Okuno… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
A key issue in the development of high-performance semiconductor devices is the ability to
properly measure active dopants at the nanometer scale. In ap–n junction, the abruptness of …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring electrical properties in semiconductor devices by pixelated STEM and off-axis electron holography (or convergent beams vs. plane waves).

D Cooper, L Bruas, M Bryan, V Boureau - Micron, 2024 - Elsevier
We demonstrate the use of both pixelated differential phase contrast (DPC) scanning
transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and off-axis electron holography (EH) for the …

Quantitative electric field map** in semiconductor heterostructures via tilt-scan averaged DPC STEM

S Toyama, T Seki, Y Kanitani, Y Kudo, S Tomiya… - Ultramicroscopy, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Revealing the origin of single‐atom W activity in H2O2 electrocatalytic production: Charge symmetry‐breaking

C **g, J Ding, P Jia, M **, L Zhou, X Liu, J Luo… - Carbon …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The low‐energy electrochemical production of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) has garnered
significant attention as a viable alternative to traditional industrial routes, with the goal of …

Suppressing dynamical diffraction artefacts in differential phase contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy of long-range electromagnetic fields via …

T Mawson, A Nakamura, TC Petersen, N Shibata… - Ultramicroscopy, 2020 - Elsevier
It is well known that dynamical diffraction varies with changes in sample thickness and local
crystal orientation (due to sample bending). In differential phase contrast scanning …

Measuring Spatially‐Resolved Potential Drops at Semiconductor Hetero‐Interfaces Using 4D‐STEM

VS Chejarla, S Ahmed, J Belz, J Scheunert… - Small …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Characterizing long‐range electric fields and built‐in potentials in functional materials at
nano to micrometer scales is of supreme importance for optimizing devices, eg, the …

Toward quantitative electromagnetic field imaging by differential-phase-contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy

T Seki, Y Ikuhara, N Shibata - Microscopy, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Differential-phase-contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy (DPC STEM) is a
technique to directly visualize local electromagnetic field distribution inside materials and …

Improved measurement of electric fields by nanobeam precession electron diffraction

L Bruas, V Boureau, AP Conlan, S Martinie… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The electric field in a silicon p–n junction has been measured using pixelated scanning
transmission electron microscopy. By using a convergence angle of 3.2 mrad, a spatial …

Interpretable and efficient interferometric contrast in scanning transmission electron microscopy with a diffraction-grating beam splitter

TR Harvey, FS Yasin, JJ Chess, JS Pierce… - Physical Review …, 2018 - APS
Efficient imaging of biomolecules, two-dimensional materials, and electromagnetic fields
depends on retrieval of the phase of transmitted electrons. We demonstrate a method to …

High-sensitivity map** of magnetic induction fields with nanometer-scale resolution: comparison of off-axis electron holography and pixelated differential phase …

V Boureau, M Staňo, JL Rouviere… - Journal of Physics D …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We compare two transmission electron microscopy (TEM) based techniques that can
provide highly spatially resolved quantitative measurements of magnetic induction fields at …