Three-dimensional domain identification in a single hexagonal manganite nanocrystal

AH Mokhtar, D Serban, DG Porter… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The three-dimensional domain structure of ferroelectric materials significantly influences
their properties. The ferroelectric domain structure of improper multiferroics, such as YMnO3 …

Atomic resolution coherent x-ray imaging with physics-based phase retrieval

J Meziere, AH Carpenter, A Pateras, R Harder… - npj Computational …, 2024 - nature.com
Coherent x-ray imaging and scattering from accelerator based sources such as synchrotrons
continue to impact biology, medicine, technology, and materials science. Many synchrotrons …

Bragg coherent diffractive imaging for defects analysis: Principles, applications, and challenges

Y Sun, A Singer - Chemical Physics Reviews, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The ability to visualize crystalline defects and lattice distortions at the nanoscale holds
profound implications for enhancing material properties and optimizing their design. Bragg …

Concurrent multi-peak Bragg coherent x-ray diffraction imaging of 3D nanocrystal lattice displacement via global optimization

S Maddali, TD Frazer, N Delegan, KJ Harmon… - npj Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
In this paper we demonstrated a method to reconstruct vector-valued lattice distortion fields
within nanoscale crystals by optimization of a forward model of multi-reflection Bragg …

Three-dimensional imaging of topologically protected strings in a multiferroic nanocrystal

MA Najeeb, D Serban, DG Porter… - Communications …, 2025 - nature.com
Multiferroic materials can host a plethora of intriguing phenomena due to the presence of
multiple ferroic properties that break both spatial inversion symmetry and time reversal …

[HTML][HTML] Coupling Phase Field Crystal and Field Dislocation Mechanics for a consistent description of dislocation structure and elasticity

MV Upadhyay, J Viñals - European Journal of Mechanics-A/Solids, 2024 - Elsevier
This work addresses differences in predicted elastic fields created by dislocations either by
the Phase Field Crystal (PFC) model, or by static Field Dislocation Mechanics (FDM). The …

Enabling dynamic 3D coherent diffraction imaging via adaptive latent space tuning of generative autoencoders

A Scheinker, R Pokharel - npj Computational Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Coherent diffraction imaging (CDI) is an advanced non-destructive 3D X-ray imaging
technique for measuring a sample's electron density. The main challenge of CDI is loss of …

Low-temperature state in strontium titanate microcrystals using in situ multireflection Bragg coherent x-ray diffraction imaging

D Yang, AF Suzana, L Wu, SS Ha, S Choi, HM Ngo… - Physical Review B, 2025 - APS
Strontium titanate is a classic quantum paraelectric oxide material that has been widely
studied in bulk and thin films. It exhibits a well-known cubic-to-tetragonal antiferrodistortive …

Imaging extended single crystal lattice distortion fields with multi-peak Bragg ptychography

S Kandel, S Maddali, X Huang, YSG Nashed… - Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Recent advances in phase-retrieval-based x-ray imaging methods have demonstrated the
ability to reconstruct 3D distortion vector fields within a nanocrystal by using coherent …

Low temperature ferroelectric state in strontium titanate microcrystals using in situ multi-reflection Bragg coherent X-ray diffraction imaging

D Yang, SS Ha, S Choi, J Liu, D Treuherz… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Strontium titanate is a classic quantum paraelectric oxide material that has been widely
studied in bulk and thin films. It exhibits a well-known cubic-to-tetragonal antiferrodistortive …