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ArticleNature communications2025

Sub-nanometer depth resolution and single dopant visualization achieved by tilt-coupled multislice electron ptychography.

Zehao Dong, Yang Zhang, Chun-Chien Chiu, Sicheng Lu, Jianbing Zhang, Yu-Chen Liu, Suya Liu, Jan-Chi Yang, Pu Yu, Yayu Wang and 1 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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Zehao DongState Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2079-7072
Yang ZhangState Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1684-6273
Chun-Chien ChiuDepartment of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
Sicheng LuState Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Jianbing ZhangState Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-7692-6944
Yu-Chen LiuDepartment of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
Suya LiuShanghai Nanoport, ThermoFisher Scientific, Shanghai, China.
Jan-Chi YangDepartment of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3549-4392
Pu YuState Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5513-7632
Yayu WangState Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2330-1642
Zhen ChenBeijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. zhen.chen@iphy.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3464

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National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 2023YFA1406400, 2022YFA1405100
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Real-space, three-dimensional imaging of atomic structures in materials science is a critical yet challenging task. Although scanning transmission electron microscopy has achieved sub-angstrom lateral resolution through techniques like electron ptychography, depth resolution remains limited to only 2 to 3 nanometers using single-projection setups. Attaining better depth resolution often requires large sample tilt angles and numerous projections, as demonstrated in atomic electron tomography. Here, we introduce an extension of multislice electron ptychography, which couples only a few small-angle projections to improve depth resolution by more than threefold, reaching the sub-nanometer scale and potentially approaching the atomic level. This technique maintains high resolving power for both light and heavy atoms, significantly enhancing the detection of individual dopants. We experimentally demonstrate three-dimensional visualization of dilute praseodymium dopants in a brownmillerite oxide, Ca

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