Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Optimal acceleration voltage for near-atomic resolution imaging of layer-stacked 2D polymer thin films

  • Baokun Liang,
  • Yingying Zhang,
  • Christopher Leist,
  • Zhaowei Ou,
  • Miroslav Položij,
  • Zhiyong Wang,
  • David Mücke,
  • Renhao Dong,
  • Zhikun Zheng,
  • Thomas Heine,
  • Xinliang Feng,
  • Ute Kaiser,
  • Haoyuan Qi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31688-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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High-resolution imaging of organic 2D materials using transmission electron microscopes is challenging. Here, the authors find the optimal electron acceleration voltage, and demonstrate 1.9 Å resolution, enabling detection of interstitial defects and functional groups in 2D polymer thin films.