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ArticleNature communications2017

Electron ptychographic microscopy for three-dimensional imaging.

Si Gao, Peng Wang, Fucai Zhang, Gerardo T Martinez, Peter D Nellist, Xiaoqing Pan, Angus I Kirkland

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Article in Nature communications, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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28 citing papers in PubMed, 131 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Si GaoNational Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures and Center for the Microstructures of Quantum Materials, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, People's Republic of China.
Peng WangNational Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures and Center for the Microstructures of Quantum Materials, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, People's Republic of China. wangpeng@nju.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0788-6687
Fucai ZhangDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, People's Republic of China. zhangfc@sustc.edu.cn.
Gerardo T MartinezDepartment of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PH, UK.
Peter D NellistDepartment of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PH, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5883-6463
Xiaoqing PanNational Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures and Center for the Microstructures of Quantum Materials, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, People's Republic of China.
Angus I KirklandDepartment of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PH, UK.
Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures · CNUniversity of Oxford · GBDiamond Light Source · GBLondon Centre for Nanotechnology · GBUniversity of California, Irvine · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Knowing the three-dimensional structural information of materials at the nanometer scale is essential to understanding complex material properties. Electron tomography retrieves three-dimensional structural information using a tilt series of two-dimensional images. In this paper, we report an alternative combination of electron ptychography with the inverse multislice method. We demonstrate depth sectioning of a nanostructured material into slices with 0.34 nm lateral resolution and with a corresponding depth resolution of about 24-30 nm. This three-dimensional imaging method has potential applications for the three-dimensional structure determination of a range of objects, ranging from inorganic nanostructures to biological macromolecules.Three-dimensional ptychographic imaging with electrons has remained a challenge because, unlike X-rays, electrons are easily scattered by atoms. Here, Gao et al. extend multi-slice methods to electrons in the multiple scattering regime, paving the way to nanometer-scale 3D structure determination with electrons.

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PMID28761117
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