arXiv:2608. 09104v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scanning probe microscopy provides nanoscale access to structural, electrical, electromechanical, magnetic, and mechanical properties of materials.
arXiv:2603. 29135v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous experimental systems are increasingly used in materials research to accelerate scientific discovery, but their performance is often limited by low-quality, noisy data.
The paper introduces a ptychography‑supervised learning framework that transforms 4D‑STEM data into real‑time atomic‑resolution phase images. By training a compact model on physics‑constrained reference phase maps from a single AuPd dataset, the method predicts local phase patches directly from diffraction patterns without probe calibration or iterative optimization. The resulting workflow achieves an online latency of ~0.27 ms per probe position, a 1,000‑fold speed‑up over GPU‑accelerated ePIE, and maintains atomic‑scale lattice contrast while generalizing across materials, defocus conditions, and instruments.
arXiv:2607. 05758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated experimentation is moving from closed-loop optimization toward open decision-making, where human or AI planners must forecast the consequences of candidate actions before executing them.
arXiv:2609.14348v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Heterogeneous interfaces dictate the performance and degradation of functional materials, making it essential to link local structural variations wit...
arXiv:2403. 18026v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: High-throughput imaging is often constrained by a trade-off between acquisition speed and image quality.
QuPAINT is a physics‑aware multimodal framework designed to characterize two‑dimensional quantum materials using optical microscopy. It employs the Synthetic Materials Framework (Synthia) to generate diverse synthetic images that preserve layer‑dependent optical behavior, and builds the QMat‑Instruct dataset with image‑specific reasoning traces. The framework integrates these signals through Physics‑Informed Attention (PIA) and is evaluated on the newly introduced QF‑Bench benchmark, achieving state‑of‑the‑art performance for flake detection and demonstrating improved spatial grounding and confidence calibration.
arXiv:2606. 09419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing materials characterization, yet most applications in electron microscopy rely solely on image contrast, overlooking the chemical and experimental context that shapes image formation.
arXiv:2606. 29592v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A central premise of autonomous scientific imaging is that smarter navigation, whether Bayesian, RL-based, or otherwise adaptive, is the principal lever for sample-efficient acquisition.
arXiv:2606. 09541v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy (SMFS) provides unprecedented insights into biomolecular mechanics, yet the high-throughput generation of force-extension trajectories creates a severe data curation bottleneck.
A central premise of autonomous scientific imaging is that smarter navigation, whether Bayesian, RL-based, or otherwise adaptive, is the principal lever for sample-efficient acquisition. We present evidence to the contrary in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), an atomic-resolution imaging modality whose every measurement deposits damaging electron dose.
arXiv:2606. 10547v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Energy Dispersive X-ray (EDX) tomography in Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) enables 3D compositional and elemental mapping at the nanoscale, but its use is limited by restricted tilt ranges and low-dose conditions required to avoid beam damage.
4DMulti is a physics‑guided learning framework that automates multicomponent identification from large‑scale four‑dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy data. It leverages a 6‑million‑pattern diffraction database, a retrieval‑conditioned latent diffusion transformer (Sim2real) for realistic pattern generation, and a rotation‑invariant convolutional network for phase classification, achieving 98.82% accuracy on a five‑phase benchmark. The method introduces a diffraction‑inferred structural complexity metric and produces single‑nanometer‑resolution structural maps of complex material interfaces such as superconducting heterostructures, corroded alloys, and degraded solid‑state battery interfaces.