Precisely detecting atomic position of atomic intensity images
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Picometer-Precision Atomic Position Tracking through Electron Microscopy
Published on: July 3, 2021
Zhijun Wang1, Yaolin Guo1, Sai Tang1
1State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, PR China.
Abstract:
We proposed a quantitative method to detect atomic position in atomic intensity images from experiments such as high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and simulation such as phase field crystal modeling. The evaluation of detection accuracy proves the excellent performance of the method. This method provides a chance to precisely determine atomic interactions based on the detected atomic positions from the atomic intensity image, and hence to investigate the related physical, chemical and electrical properties.
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