清华大学材料科学与工程研究院《材料科学论坛》学术报告

报告题目：Electron Microscopy of Structure and Spin Textures at Record Resolution

报告人：陈震 博士，康奈尔大学

报告时间：2020年1月2日（周四） 下午15:00-15:45

报告地点：清华大学主楼11区（东配楼）二层，北京电子显微镜中心会议室228室

联系人：于荣教授 62798152

报告摘要：
Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) is known to be an atomic-resolution imaging technique for hard materials, such as ceramics or metals. However, high resolution imaging for beam sensitive materials, such as 2D and biological materials, is very challenging due to the electron-induced damage and the dose inefficiency of the conventional STEM imaging methods. New fast, high-dynamic-range pixel array detectors enable detection of all electrons with both momentum and position resolution, encoding all structural information of the sample. Utilizing a computational phase-contrast imaging technique, electron ptychography, we achieved a new spatial-resolution record of 0.39 Å in 2D materials [1]. I will demonstrate the unique capability of micron down to sub-angstrom length-scale imaging in Moiré-lattice of twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides [2]. I will also show Cryo-STEM imaging of biological cells giving sharper features than from the conventional Cryo-TEM imaging. This new detector also allows spin textures imaging with ultrahigh magnetic-field sensitivity at ~1 nm spatial resolution. We can directly determine the topological properties of magnetizations in both single crystal and embedded magnetic films with multiple external stimuli, such as temperature, magnetic field and electric current under electron microscope.

References:

[1] Yi Jiang*, Zhen Chen*, et al., Nature 559, 343–349 (2018)

[2] Zhen Chen, et al., under review on Nature Communications (2019)

报告人简介：
Zhen Chen is currently a Postdoctoral Associate in School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University. He obtained his PhD from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2014. After that, he went to Monash University in Australia as a Research Fellow working with Dr. Scott Findlay in 2014-2016.  From 2016, he started working with Prof. David Muller at Cornell University in USA. His main research interests are developing new electron microscopy techniques for understanding atomic-scale structural and physical properties of materials. He was awarded Presidential Postdoctoral Award by Microscopy and Microanalysis Society of America in 2016 and 2018. He was also awarded for Microscopy Today Innovation Awards in 2019 as one of the developers of electron microscope pixel array detector. He serves as the referee for several renowned journals, such as Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Applied Physics Letters and Microscopy & Microanalysis.