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Colin Ophus is primarily affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research focuses on materials science, with a particular emphasis on materials chemistry, structural biology, surfaces, coatings and films, electrical and electronic engineering, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Ophus has contributed extensively to topics including advanced electron microscopy techniques and applications, electron and X-ray spectroscopy techniques, graphene research and applications, advanced X-ray imaging techniques, machine learning in materials science, electronic and structural properties of oxides, and advanced materials characterization techniques.

Notable recent publications by Ophus include:

  • Extreme mixing in nanoscale transition metal alloys, 2021, Matter
  • Towards data-driven next-generation transmission electron microscopy, 2020, Nature Materials
  • The chain of chirality transfer in tellurium nanocrystals, 2021, Science
  • Machine learning in scanning transmission electron microscopy, 2022, Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • Creation of skyrmions in van der Waals ferromagnet Fe 3 GeTe 2 on (Co/Pd) n superlattice, 2020, Science Advances

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ophus include:

  • Jim Ciston
  • Karen C. Bustillo
  • Andrew M. Minor
  • Benjamin H. Savitzky
  • Stephanie M. Ribet

Ophus publishes regularly in venues such as:

  • Microscopy and Microanalysis
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Best Publications

  • Four-Dimensional Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (4D-STEM): From Scanning Nanodiffraction to Ptychography and Beyond.

    Colin Ophus

  • Observation of room-temperature polar skyrmions

    S. Das;Y. L. Tang;Y. L. Tang;Z. Hong;M. A. P. Gonçalves

  • Deciphering chemical order/disorder and material properties at the single-atom level

    Yongsoo Yang;Chien Chun Chen;Chien Chun Chen;M. C. Scott;M. C. Scott;Colin Ophus

  • Measurement of the intrinsic strength of crystalline and polycrystalline graphene

    Haider I. Rasool;Colin Ophus;William S. Klug;A. Zettl;A. Zettl

  • Verification of Short-Range Order and Its Impact on the Properties of the CrCoNi Medium Entropy Alloy

    Ruopeng Zhang;Shiteng Zhao;Jun Ding;Yan Chong

  • Observing crystal nucleation in four dimensions using atomic electron tomography

    Jihan Zhou;Yongsoo Yang;Yongsoo Yang;Yao Yang;Dennis S. Kim

  • Three-dimensional coordinates of individual atoms in materials revealed by electron tomography

    Rui Xu;Chien Chun Chen;Chien Chun Chen;Li Wu;M. C. Scott

  • Metallic NEMS components fabricated from nanocomposite Al–Mo films

    Z Lee;C Ophus;L M Fischer;N Nelson-Fitzpatrick

  • Strain mapping at nanometer resolution using advanced nano-beam electron diffraction

    V. B. Ozdol;C. Gammer;C. Gammer;C. Gammer;X. G. Jin;P. Ercius

  • Formation of two-dimensional transition metal oxide nanosheets with nanoparticles as intermediates.

    Juan Yang;Juan Yang;Juan Yang;Zhiyuan Zeng;Jun Kang;Sophia Betzler

  • Extreme mixing in nanoscale transition metal alloys

    Yonggang Yao;Zhennan Huang;Zhennan Huang;Lauren A. Hughes;Lauren A. Hughes;Jinlong Gao

  • Hidden structural and chemical order controls lithium transport in cation-disordered oxides for rechargeable batteries.

    Huiwen Ji;Alexander Urban;Alexander Urban;Alexander Urban;Daniil A. Kitchaev;Deok-Hwang Kwon;Deok-Hwang Kwon

  • Unravelling structural ambiguities in lithium- and manganese-rich transition metal oxides.

    Alpesh Khushalchand Shukla;Quentin M. Ramasse;Colin Ophus;Hugues Duncan

  • Towards data-driven next-generation transmission electron microscopy.

    Steven R. Spurgeon;Colin Ophus;Lewys Jones;Amanda Petford-Long

  • Correcting nonlinear drift distortion of scanning probe and scanning transmission electron microscopies from image pairs with orthogonal scan directions.

    Colin Ophus;Jim Ciston;Chris T. Nelson

  • Short-range order and its impact on the CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy.

    Ruopeng Zhang;Ruopeng Zhang;Shiteng Zhao;Shiteng Zhao;Jun Ding;Yan Chong;Yan Chong

  • Strain fields in twisted bilayer graphene

    Nathanael P. Kazmierczak;Nathanael P. Kazmierczak;Madeline Van Winkle;Colin Ophus;Karen C. Bustillo

  • A fast image simulation algorithm for scanning transmission electron microscopy.

    Colin Ophus

  • Formation of hierarchically ordered structures in conductive polymers to enhance the performances of lithium-ion batteries

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  • Diffraction imaging of nanocrystalline structures in organic semiconductor molecular thin films

    Ouliana Panova;Colin Ophus;Christopher J. Takacs;Karen C. Bustillo

  • The chain of chirality transfer in tellurium nanocrystals.

    Assaf Ben-Moshe;Assaf Ben-Moshe;Alessandra da Silva;Alexander Müller;Alexander Müller;Anas Abu-Odeh;Anas Abu-Odeh

  • Highly monodisperse core–shell particles created by solid-state reactions

    V. Radmilovic;V. Radmilovic;C. Ophus;E. A. Marquis;M. D. Rossell;M. D. Rossell

  • Creation of skyrmions in van der Waals ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2 on (Co/Pd) n superlattice.

    M. Yang;Q. Li;R. V. Chopdekar;R. Dhall

  • Interface lattice displacement measurement to 1 pm by geometric phase analysis on aberration-corrected HAADF STEM images

    Yuanyuan Zhu;Colin Ophus;Jim Ciston;Haiyan Wang

  • Strain fields in twisted bilayer graphene

    Nathanael P. Kazmierczak;Madeline Van Winkle;Colin Ophus;Karen C. Bustillo

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew M. Minor
Andrew M. Minor University of California, Berkeley
Jim Ciston
Jim Ciston Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peter Ercius
Peter Ercius Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Alex Zettl
Alex Zettl University of California, Berkeley
David Mitlin
David Mitlin The University of Texas at Austin
Mark Asta
Mark Asta University of California, Berkeley
Andreas K. Schmid
Andreas K. Schmid Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Velimir Radmilovic
Velimir Radmilovic University of Belgrade
U. Dahmen
U. Dahmen Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Haimei Zheng
Haimei Zheng Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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