2022/04/21 by Chen, Xinzhong, Xu, Suheng, Shabani, Sara +7 · 1 citation
#Data Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Optics (physics.optics) #Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2204.09820
The ability to perform nanometer-scale optical imaging and spectroscopy is key to deciphering the low-energy effects in quantum materials, as well as vibrational fingerprints in planetary and extraterrestrial particles, catalytic substances, and aqueous biological samples. The scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) technique has recently spread to many research fields and enabled notable discoveries. In this brief perspective, we show that the s-SNOM, together with scanning probe research in general, can benefit in many ways from artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms. We show that, with the help of AI- and ML-enhanced data acquisition and analysis, scanning probe optical nanoscopy is poised to become more efficient, accurate, and intelligent.