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Aberration-corrected annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy (ADF-STEM) is a powerful tool for structural and chemical analysis of materials. Conventional analyses of ADF-STEM images rely on human labeling, making them labor-intensive and prone to subjective error. Here, we introduce a deep-learning-based workflow combining a pix2pix network for image denoising and either a mathematical algorithm local intensity threshold segmentation (LITS) or another deep learning network UNet for chemical identification. After denoising, the processed images exhibit a five-fold improvement in signal-to-noise ratio and a 20% increase in accuracy of atomic localization. Then, we take atomic-resolution images of Y-Ce dual-atom catalysts (DACs) and Fe-doped ReSe2 nanosheets as examples to validate the performance. Pix2pix is applied to identify atomic sites in Y-Ce DACs with a location recall of 0.88 and a location precision of 0.99. LITS is used to further differentiate Y and Ce sites by the intensity of atomic sites. Furthermore, pix2pix and UNet workflow with better automaticity is applied to identification of Fe-doped ReSe2 nanosheets. Three types of atomic sites (Re, the substitution of Fe for Re, and the adatom of Fe on Re) are distinguished with the identification recall of more than 0.90 and the precision of higher than 0.93. These results suggest that this strategy facilitates high-quality and automated chemical identification of atomic-resolution images.
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CHINESE JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL CHEMISTRY
ISSN: 0254-5861
Year: 2025
Issue: 5
Volume: 44
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JCR@2023
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