Reliable preparation and regeneration of well-defined single-atom tips through laser annealing.

Single-atom tips (SATs) have crucial scientific and technological applications, such as in scanning probe microscopy and charged particle beam technology. We reported a reliable method of preparing and regenerating noble metal-covered W(111) SATs through laser annealing at approximately 1000 K under ultrahigh vacuum. The field emission patterns obtained during laser heating revealed the self-assembly process of a pyramidal tip.

Maintaining temporal coherence in video retargeting using mosaic-guided scaling.

Video retargeting from a full-resolution video to a lower resolution display will inevitably cause information loss. Content-aware video retargeting techniques have been studied to avoid critical visual information loss while resizing a video. Maintaining the spatio-temporal coherence of a retargeted video is very critical on visual quality.