Frontiers of atom probe tomography physics, data processing, and analysis
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| author | Marquis, Emmanuelle A. Devaraj, Arun Forbes, Richard G. Ghamarian, Iman Kühbach, Markus Maillet, Jean-Baptiste Mazumder, Baishakhi Meisenkothen, Frederick Qi, Jiayuwen Schreiber, Daniel Styman, Paul Vupillot, Francois Windl, Wolfgang |
| author_facet | Marquis, Emmanuelle A. Devaraj, Arun Forbes, Richard G. Ghamarian, Iman Kühbach, Markus Maillet, Jean-Baptiste Mazumder, Baishakhi Meisenkothen, Frederick Qi, Jiayuwen Schreiber, Daniel Styman, Paul Vupillot, Francois Windl, Wolfgang |
| contents | Atom probe tomography (APT) fills a crucial need in the characterization workflow of materials by its ability to inform the 3D chemical microstructure at the nanoscale. As with any characterization techniques, APT has strengths and limitations that inform the interpretation of the data. Therefore, a challenge for the materials characterization community, and the APT community in particular, is the need to establish repeatable and reproducible workflows around the APT data acquisition, reconstruction, analysis, and sharing, in order to inform interpretation. Data interpretation also requires the continued development of our understanding of the physical processes responsible for field evaporation. We review recent developments in the experimental analysis of field evaporation and in the modeling of field evaporation leading to new understanding of common artifacts observed in reconstructed data. We then discuss current challenges with data analysis, translation of results, and data interpretation in the absence of community-agreed standards, and therefore, the crucial need for standardization at every stage of APT research, from data collection all the way to data reporting. This perspective is a summary of the invited presentations and discussions that took place during a workshop (August 4-5, 2024, Alexandria, Virginia, USA). |
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| spellingShingle | Frontiers of atom probe tomography physics, data processing, and analysis Marquis, Emmanuelle A. Devaraj, Arun Forbes, Richard G. Ghamarian, Iman Kühbach, Markus Maillet, Jean-Baptiste Mazumder, Baishakhi Meisenkothen, Frederick Qi, Jiayuwen Schreiber, Daniel Styman, Paul Vupillot, Francois Windl, Wolfgang Materials Science Atom probe tomography (APT) fills a crucial need in the characterization workflow of materials by its ability to inform the 3D chemical microstructure at the nanoscale. As with any characterization techniques, APT has strengths and limitations that inform the interpretation of the data. Therefore, a challenge for the materials characterization community, and the APT community in particular, is the need to establish repeatable and reproducible workflows around the APT data acquisition, reconstruction, analysis, and sharing, in order to inform interpretation. Data interpretation also requires the continued development of our understanding of the physical processes responsible for field evaporation. We review recent developments in the experimental analysis of field evaporation and in the modeling of field evaporation leading to new understanding of common artifacts observed in reconstructed data. We then discuss current challenges with data analysis, translation of results, and data interpretation in the absence of community-agreed standards, and therefore, the crucial need for standardization at every stage of APT research, from data collection all the way to data reporting. This perspective is a summary of the invited presentations and discussions that took place during a workshop (August 4-5, 2024, Alexandria, Virginia, USA). |
| title | Frontiers of atom probe tomography physics, data processing, and analysis |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10276 |