Subsampled STEM-ptychography. Stevens, A., Yang, H., Hao, W., Jones, L., Ophus, C., Nellist, P. D., & Browning, N. D. Applied Physics Letters, 113(3):033104, July, 2018. Publisher: American Institute of Physics
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Ptychography has been shown to be an efficient phase contrast imaging technique for scanning transmission electron microscopes (STEM). STEM-ptychography uses a fast pixelated detector to collect a “4-dimensional” dataset consisting of a 2D electron diffraction pattern at every probe position of a 2D raster-scan. This 4D dataset can be used to recover the phase-image. Current camera technology, unfortunately, can only achieve a frame rate of a few thousand detector frames-per-second (fps), which means that the acquisition time of the 4D dataset is up to 1000× slower than the scanning speed in a conventional STEM, thereby limiting the potential applications of this method for dose-fragile and dynamic specimens. In this letter, we demonstrate that subsampling provides an effective method for optimizing ptychographic acquisition by reducing both the number of detector-pixels and the number of probe positions. Subsampling and recovery of the 4D dataset are shown using an experimental 4D dataset with randomly removed detector-pixels and probe positions. After compressive sensing recovery, Wigner distribution deconvolution is applied to obtain phase-images. Randomly sampling both the probe positions and the detector at 10% gives sufficient information for phase-retrieval and reduces acquisition time by 100×, thereby making STEM-ptychography competitive with conventional STEM.
@article{stevens_subsampled_2018,
	title = {Subsampled {STEM}-ptychography},
	volume = {113},
	issn = {0003-6951},
	url = {https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.5040496},
	doi = {10.1063/1.5040496},
	abstract = {Ptychography has been shown to be an efficient phase contrast imaging technique for scanning transmission electron microscopes (STEM). STEM-ptychography uses a fast pixelated detector to collect a “4-dimensional” dataset consisting of a 2D electron diffraction pattern at every probe position of a 2D raster-scan. This 4D dataset can be used to recover the phase-image. Current camera technology, unfortunately, can only achieve a frame rate of a few thousand detector frames-per-second (fps), which means that the acquisition time of the 4D dataset is up to 1000× slower than the scanning speed in a conventional STEM, thereby limiting the potential applications of this method for dose-fragile and dynamic specimens. In this letter, we demonstrate that subsampling provides an effective method for optimizing ptychographic acquisition by reducing both the number of detector-pixels and the number of probe positions. Subsampling and recovery of the 4D dataset are shown using an experimental 4D dataset with randomly removed detector-pixels and probe positions. After compressive sensing recovery, Wigner distribution deconvolution is applied to obtain phase-images. Randomly sampling both the probe positions and the detector at 10\% gives sufficient information for phase-retrieval and reduces acquisition time by 100×, thereby making STEM-ptychography competitive with conventional STEM.},
	number = {3},
	urldate = {2021-05-24},
	journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
	author = {Stevens, Andrew and Yang, Hao and Hao, Weituo and Jones, Lewys and Ophus, Colin and Nellist, Peter D. and Browning, Nigel D.},
	month = jul,
	year = {2018},
	note = {Publisher: American Institute of Physics},
	keywords = {STEM, methods, ptychography},
	pages = {033104},
}

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