Imaging interstitial atoms with multislice electron ptychography
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| author | Chen, Zhen Shao, Yu-Tsun Zeltmann, Steven E. P., Harikrishnan K. Rosenberg, Ethan R. Ross, Caroline A. Jiang, Yi Muller, David A. |
| author_facet | Chen, Zhen Shao, Yu-Tsun Zeltmann, Steven E. P., Harikrishnan K. Rosenberg, Ethan R. Ross, Caroline A. Jiang, Yi Muller, David A. |
| contents | Doping impurity atoms is a strategy commonly used to tune the functionality of materials including catalysts, semiconductors, and quantum emitters. The location of dopants and their interaction with surrounding atoms could significantly modulate the transport, optical, or magnetic properties of materials. However, directly imaging individual impurity atoms inside materials remains a generally unaddressed need. Here, we demonstrate how single atoms can be detected and located in three dimensions via multislice electron ptychography.Interstitial atoms in a complex garnet oxide heterostructure are resolved with a depth resolution better than 2.7 nm, together with a deep-sub-Ångstrom lateral resolution. Single-scan atomic-layer depth resolution should be possible using strongly divergent electron probe illumination. Our results provide a new approach to detecting individual atomic defects and open doors to characterize the local environments and spatial distributions that underlie a broad range of systems such as single-atom catalysts, nitrogen-vacancy centers, and other atomic-scale quantum sensors. |
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| spellingShingle | Imaging interstitial atoms with multislice electron ptychography Chen, Zhen Shao, Yu-Tsun Zeltmann, Steven E. P., Harikrishnan K. Rosenberg, Ethan R. Ross, Caroline A. Jiang, Yi Muller, David A. Materials Science Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Doping impurity atoms is a strategy commonly used to tune the functionality of materials including catalysts, semiconductors, and quantum emitters. The location of dopants and their interaction with surrounding atoms could significantly modulate the transport, optical, or magnetic properties of materials. However, directly imaging individual impurity atoms inside materials remains a generally unaddressed need. Here, we demonstrate how single atoms can be detected and located in three dimensions via multislice electron ptychography.Interstitial atoms in a complex garnet oxide heterostructure are resolved with a depth resolution better than 2.7 nm, together with a deep-sub-Ångstrom lateral resolution. Single-scan atomic-layer depth resolution should be possible using strongly divergent electron probe illumination. Our results provide a new approach to detecting individual atomic defects and open doors to characterize the local environments and spatial distributions that underlie a broad range of systems such as single-atom catalysts, nitrogen-vacancy centers, and other atomic-scale quantum sensors. |
| title | Imaging interstitial atoms with multislice electron ptychography |
| topic | Materials Science Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18063 |