WRAP: A wavelet-regularised reconstruction algorithm for magnetic vector electron tomography

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Contributors

  • George R. Lewis - , University of Cambridge (Author)
  • Daniel Wolf - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • Axel Lubk - , CEOS- Endowed Chair of Electron Optics (with IFW), Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • Emilie Ringe - , University of Cambridge (Author)
  • Paul A. Midgley - , University of Cambridge (Author)

Abstract

Magnetic vector electron tomography (VET) is a promising technique that enables better understanding of micro- and nano-magnetic phenomena through the reconstruction of 3D magnetic fields at high spatial resolution. Here we introduce WRAP (Wavelet Regularised A Program), a reconstruction algorithm for magnetic VET that directly reconstructs the magnetic vector potential A using a compressed sensing framework which regularises for sparsity in the wavelet domain. We demonstrate that using WRAP leads to a significant increase in the fidelity of the 3D reconstruction and is especially robust when dealing with very limited data; using datasets simulated with realistic noise, we compare WRAP to a conventional reconstruction algorithm and find an improvement of ca. 60% when averaged over several performance metrics. Moreover, we further validate WRAP's performance on experimental electron holography data, revealing the detailed magnetism of vortex states in a CuCo nanowire. We believe WRAP represents a major step forward in the development of magnetic VET as a tool for probing magnetism at the nanoscale.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number113804
JournalUltramicroscopy
Volume253
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2023
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

PubMed 37481909

Keywords

Keywords

  • Compressed sensing, Electron microscopy, Inverse reconstruction, Nanomagnetism, Tomography