Automatic Identification of Crystal Structures and Interfaces via Artificial-Intelligence-based Electron Microscopy
| Autor: | Leitherer, Andreas, Yeo, Byung Chul, Liebscher, Christian H., Ghiringhelli, Luca M. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Characterizing crystal structures and interfaces down to the atomic level is an important step for designing advanced materials. Modern electron microscopy routinely achieves atomic resolution and is capable to resolve complex arrangements of atoms with picometer precision. Here, we present AI-STEM, an automatic, artificial-intelligence based method, for accurately identifying key characteristics from atomic-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) images of polycrystalline materials. The method is based on a Bayesian convolutional neural network (BNN) that is trained only on simulated images. AI-STEM automatically and accurately identifies crystal structure, lattice orientation, and location of interface regions in synthetic and experimental images. The model is trained on cubic and hexagonal crystal structures, yielding classifications and uncertainty estimates, while no explicit information on structural patterns at the interfaces is included during training. This work combines principles from probabilistic modeling, deep learning, and information theory, enabling automatic analysis of experimental, atomic-resolution images. Comment: Code (https://github.com/AndreasLeitherer/ai4stem) and data (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7756516) are available for public use. The manuscript contains 32 pages (10 pages main text, 15 pages for Methods & References & 5 Figures & 1 Table, as well as 7 pages Supplementary Information), including 5 main figures and 6 supplementary figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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