Philip E. Batson

TL;DR: The implementation of a computer-controlled aberration correction system in a scanning transmission electron microscope, which is less sensitive to chromatic aberration, is reported here and allows dynamic imaging of single atoms, clusters of a few atoms, and single atomic layer ‘rafts' of atoms coexisting with Au islands on a carbon substrate.

TL;DR: It is shown that efficient charge injection and the presence of naturally occurring sulfur vacancies are responsible for the observed increase in catalytic activity of the 2H basal planes of monolayer MoS2 nanosheets.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the vibrational signal has both high- and low-spatial-resolution components, that the first component can be used to map vibrational features at nanometre-level resolution, and that the second component can been used for analysis carried out with the beam positioned just outside the sample—that is, for ‘aloof’ spectroscopy that largely avoids radiation damage.

TL;DR: High-resolution p z - and p x,y -projected fine structure for the 1s carbon core level in graphite are compared with symmetry-projected calculations, and a very sharp transition occurs about 7.6 eV above the Fermi energy in the px,y results, agreeing closely with the nondispersive σ * band.

TL;DR: In this article, the oxidation state of individual columns of unit cells, containing pairs of silicon atoms, can be resolved with this method, allowing the structure of the interface to be characterized in great detail.