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Advances in Crystallographic Image Processing for Scanning Probe Microscopy: Unambiguous identification of the translation symmetry of a 2D periodic image

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2014

Taylor T. Bilyeu ,
Jack C. Straton ,
Axel Mainzer Koenig  and
Peter Moeck
Taylor T. Bilyeu
Affiliation:
Nano-Crystallography Group, Department of Physics, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207-0751, U.S.A
Jack C. Straton
Affiliation:
Nano-Crystallography Group, Department of Physics, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207-0751, U.S.A
Axel Mainzer Koenig
Affiliation:
Nano-Crystallography Group, Department of Physics, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207-0751, U.S.A
Peter Moeck*
Affiliation:
Nano-Crystallography Group, Department of Physics, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207-0751, U.S.A
*
*corresponding author’s email: pmoeck@pdx.edu
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Abstract

A statistically sound procedure for the unambiguous identification of the underlying Bravais lattice of an image of a 2D periodic array of objects is described. Our Bravais lattice detection procedure is independent of which type of microscope has been utilized for the recording of the image data. It is particularly useful for the correction of Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) images that suffer from a blunt scanning probe tip artifact, i.e. simultaneously recording multiple mini-tips. The unambiguous detection of the type of translation symmetry presents a first step towards making objective decisions about which plane symmetry a 2D periodic image is best modeled by. Such decisions are important for the application of Crystallographic Image Processing (CIP) techniques to images from Scanning Probe Microscopes (SPMs).

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scanning probe microscopy (SPM)scanning tunneling microscopy (STM)epitaxy
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1712: Symposium ZZ/AAA/BBB – Recent Advances in the Structural Characterization of Materials , 2014 , mrss14-1712-bbb05-08
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2014 

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