Revealing Information from Weak Signal in Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy with a Deep Denoiser
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| author | Wang, Yifan Tan, Mai Fernandez-Granda, Carlos Crozier, Peter A. |
| author_facet | Wang, Yifan Tan, Mai Fernandez-Granda, Carlos Crozier, Peter A. |
| contents | Electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) coupled with scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) is a powerful technique to determine materials composition and bonding with high spatial resolution. Noise is often a limitation especially with the increasing sophistication of EELS experiments. The signal characteristics from direct electron detectors provide a new opportunity to design superior denoisers. We have developed a CNN based denoiser, the unsupervised deep video denoiser (UDVD), which can be applied to EELS datasets acquired with direct electron detectors. We described UDVD and explained how to adapt the denoiser to energy-loss spectral series. To benchmark the performance of the denoiser on EELS datasets, we generated and denoised a set of simulated spectra. We demonstrate the charge spreading effect associated with pixel interfaces on direct electron detectors, which leads to artifacts after denoising. To suppress such artifacts, we propose some adjustments. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the denoiser using two challenging real data examples: mapping Gd dopants in $CeO_2$ nanoparticles and characterizing vibrational modes in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) with atomic resolution. |
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| spellingShingle | Revealing Information from Weak Signal in Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy with a Deep Denoiser Wang, Yifan Tan, Mai Fernandez-Granda, Carlos Crozier, Peter A. Instrumentation and Detectors Materials Science Electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) coupled with scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) is a powerful technique to determine materials composition and bonding with high spatial resolution. Noise is often a limitation especially with the increasing sophistication of EELS experiments. The signal characteristics from direct electron detectors provide a new opportunity to design superior denoisers. We have developed a CNN based denoiser, the unsupervised deep video denoiser (UDVD), which can be applied to EELS datasets acquired with direct electron detectors. We described UDVD and explained how to adapt the denoiser to energy-loss spectral series. To benchmark the performance of the denoiser on EELS datasets, we generated and denoised a set of simulated spectra. We demonstrate the charge spreading effect associated with pixel interfaces on direct electron detectors, which leads to artifacts after denoising. To suppress such artifacts, we propose some adjustments. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the denoiser using two challenging real data examples: mapping Gd dopants in $CeO_2$ nanoparticles and characterizing vibrational modes in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) with atomic resolution. |
| title | Revealing Information from Weak Signal in Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy with a Deep Denoiser |
| topic | Instrumentation and Detectors Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14032 |