Details
Speaker Name/Affiliation
Prof. Jianwei (John) Miao / U. California, Los Angeles, STROBE
When
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Seminar Type
Location (Room)
JILA X317
Online/Virtual Meeting Link
Event Details & Abstracts
Zoom Information:
Meeting ID: 972 3525 2199, Passcode: Contact Lauren Mason, masonlw@jila.colorado.edu
In-person Locations:
CU Boulder: JILA X317
Berkeley: Chemistry Library Seminar Room 100E
Date and Time: 11:00AM PT / 12:00PM MT / 2:00PM ET, Thursday, April 7, 2022
Bio: Jianwei (John) Miao is professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA. He is an internationally renowned pioneer in the development of novel imaging methods with X-rays and electrons. He performed the seminal experiment of extending X-ray crystallography to allow structural determination of non-crystalline specimens in 1999, which is known as coherent diffractive imaging (CDI), lensless or computational microscopy. CDI methods such as plane-wave CDI, ptychography (i.e., scanning CDI) and Bragg CDI have been broadly implemented using synchrotron radiation, X-ray free electron lasers, high harmonic generation, optical and electron microscopy. In 2012, he applied CDI algorithms to pioneer atomic electron tomography (AET) for 3D structure determination of materials without assuming crystallinity. He has since performed several groundbreaking AET experiments to image a wide range of crystal defects with unprecedented 3D detail. In 2019, he developed 4D AET to observe crystal nucleation at atomic resolution, showing early stage nucleation results contradict classical nucleation theory. More recently, he advanced AET to solve a long-standing grand challenge in the physical sciences – determining the 3D atomic structure of amorphous solids for the first time.
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