Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Dictionary learning in Fourier-transform scanning tunneling spectroscopy

  • Sky C. Cheung,
  • John Y. Shin,
  • Yenson Lau,
  • Zhengyu Chen,
  • Ju Sun,
  • Yuqian Zhang,
  • Marvin A. Müller,
  • Ilya M. Eremin,
  • John N. Wright,
  • Abhay N. Pasupathy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14633-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Aperiodic structure imaging suffers limitations when utilizing Fourier analysis. The authors report an algorithm that quantitatively overcomes these limitations based on nonconvex optimization, demonstrated by studying aperiodic structures via the phase sensitive interference in STM images.