Inverse electronic scattering by singular values decomposition within the Fresnel-Kirchhoff formalism
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1Laboratoire de Physique du Solide, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium. alexandre.mayer@fundp.ac.be
Abstract:
The inverse scattering technique we presented previously to enable a sample reconstruction from the diffraction figures obtained by electronic projection microscopy is reforrmulated within the Fresnel-Kirchhoff formalism, which describes the sample as a two-dimensional mask. The method relies on the use of singular values decomposition techniques, thus providing the best least-squares solutions and enabling a reduction of noise. The technique is applied to the analysis of a two-dimensional nanometric sample that is observed in Fresnel conditions with an electronic energy of 40 eV. The algorithm turns out to provide results with a mean relative error around 1% and to be very stable against random noise.
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