Development of tilt-scan system for differential phase contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy

Differential phase contrast (DPC) scanning transmission electron microscopy can directly visualize electromagnetic fields inside a specimen. However, their image contrast is not only sensitive to the electromagnetic fields in the sample, but also the changes in diffraction conditions such as sample...

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Main Authors: Kohno, Y. (Author), Morishita, S. (Author), Nakamura, A. (Author), Shibata, N. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: NLM (Medline) 2022
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520 3 |a Differential phase contrast (DPC) scanning transmission electron microscopy can directly visualize electromagnetic fields inside a specimen. However, their image contrast is not only sensitive to the electromagnetic fields in the sample, but also the changes in diffraction conditions such as sample bends or thickness changes. These additional contrasts are called diffraction contrasts, and sometimes make it difficult to extract pure electromagnetic field information from the experimental DPC images. In this study, we developed a beam scan system that can acquire many DPC images from the same sample region with arbitrarily varying incident beam tilt angles to the sample. Then, these images are precisely averaged to form tilt-scan averaged DPC images. It is shown that the diffraction contrast can be effectively reduced in the tilt-scan averaged DPC images. © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Japanese Society of Microscopy. 
650 0 4 |a beam scan system 
650 0 4 |a diffraction contrast 
650 0 4 |a DPC STEM 
650 0 4 |a Microscopy, Electron, Scanning Transmission 
650 0 4 |a Microscopy, Phase-Contrast 
650 0 4 |a phase contrast microscopy 
650 0 4 |a procedures 
650 0 4 |a scanning transmission electron microscopy 
700 1 |a Kohno, Y.  |e author 
700 1 |a Morishita, S.  |e author 
700 1 |a Nakamura, A.  |e author 
700 1 |a Shibata, N.  |e author 
773 |t Microscopy (Oxford, England)