Magnus Nord
Background and activities
Research interests
- Scanning transmission electron microscopy using fast pixelated electron detectors (4D-STEM)
- Open source scientific Python software development
- "Big data" processing of 4D-STEM data
- Imaging of magnetic and electric fields in materials using scanning transmission electron microscopy - differential phase contrast (STEM-DPC)
- Structural characterization of materials with 4D-STEM using higher order Laue zones
Research highlights
Full list of publications: Google Scholar
- Fast Pixelated Detectors in Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy. Part I: Data Acquisition, Live Processing, and Storage
- Strain Anisotropy and Magnetic Domains in Embedded Nanomagnets
- Three-dimensional subnanoscale imaging of unit cell doubling due to octahedral tilting and cation modulation in strained perovskite thin films
- Atomap: a new software tool for the automated analysis of atomic resolution images using two-dimensional Gaussian fitting
Open source software projects
- pyxem - for analysing data acquired with a fast pixelated electron detector, developer
- pixStem - for analysing the large datasets acquired using a fast pixelated electron detector, main developer (currently being merged with pyxem)
- Atomap - analysing atomic resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy data, main developer
- HyperSpy - analysis of multidimensional data, developer
- merlin_interface - Python wrapper for controlling the MerlinEM detector
Open datasets
- Strain Anisotropy and Magnetic Domains in Embedded Nanomagnets
- Three-dimensional subnanoscale imaging of unit cell doubling due to octahedral tilting and cation modulation in strained perovskite thin films
- EELS database
Wikipedia contributions
- Section on STEM-DPC
- Small section on perovskite oxide thin films
Wikipedia images
- GaAs quantum dot
- Perovskite oxide thin film
- Sample preparation of TEM sample using FIB
- Comparsion of ADF and ABF image modes is STEM
- Schematic image of STEM-DPC technique
- Imaging of ferromagnetic spiral using STEM-DPC
- EELS overview and core loss EELS example
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Full list of publications: Google Scholar
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2017) Magnetic domain configuration of (111)-oriented LaFeO3 epitaxial thin films. APL Materials. vol. 5 (8).
- (2017) Optimising multi-frame ADF-STEM for high-precision atomic-resolution strain mapping. Ultramicroscopy. vol. 179.
- (2017) Mapping the chemistry within, and the strain around, Al-alloy precipitates at atomic resolution by multi-frame scanning transmission electron microscopy. Microscopy and Microanalysis. vol. 23.
- (2017) Atomap - Automated Analysis of Atomic Resolution STEM Images. Microscopy and Microanalysis. vol. 23.
- (2017) Atomap: a new software tool for the automated analysis of atomic resolution images using two-dimensional Gaussian fitting. Advanced Structural and Chemical Imaging. vol. 3 (9).
- (2017) Strategy for reliable strain measurement in InAs/GaAs materials from high-resolution Z-contrast STEM images. Journal of Physics: Conference Series. vol. 902.
- (2017) Methodology to Improve Strain Measurement in III–V Semiconductors Materials. Microscopy and Microanalysis. vol. 23 (S1).
- (2017) Quantitative strain analysis of InAs/GaAs quantum dot materials. Scientific Reports. vol. 7.
- (2016) Effect of polar (111)-oriented SrTiO3 on initial perovskite growth. Crystal Growth & Design. vol. 16.
- (2016) Assessing electron beam sensitivity for SrTiO3 and La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 using electron energy loss spectroscopy. Ultramicroscopy. vol. 169.
- (2016) On Vanadium Substitution in Li2MnSiO4/C as Positive Electrode for Li-ion Batteries. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. vol. 120 (21).
- (2015) Structural investigation of epitaxial LaFeO_3 thin films on (111) oriented SrTiO_3 by transmission electron microscopy. Journal of Physics: Conference Series. vol. 644:012002.
- (2015) Structural phases driven by oxygen vacancies at the La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/SrTiO3 hetero-interface. Applied Physics Letters. vol. 106 (4).
- (2014) Silicon-core glass fibres as microwire radial-junction solar cells. Scientific Reports. vol. 4.
- (2013) In-plane structural order of domain engineered La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 thin films. Philosophical Magazine. vol. 93 (13).
- (2013) Surface stability of epitaxial La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 thin films on (111)-oriented SrTiO3. Journal of Applied Physics. vol. 113 (18).