Tianbi Zhang
@tbizh95.bsky.social
PhD student (mater. eng. & microscopy) and member of waffles fan club @expmicromech.com. he/him
Anyway learning a variety of French tenses and grammar has definitely had an impact on my English writing. I now have to hold myself from putting "will" or "have/had" randomly.
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Anyway learning a variety of French tenses and grammar has definitely had an impact on my English writing. I now have to hold myself from putting "will" or "have/had" randomly.
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🚨New Preprint: "Angular Resolution Enhancement of Electron Backscatter Diffraction Patterns" by @bmatb.expmicromech.com and @tbizh95.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2509.23039
arxiv.org/abs/2509.23039
September 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🚨New Preprint: "Angular Resolution Enhancement of Electron Backscatter Diffraction Patterns" by @bmatb.expmicromech.com and @tbizh95.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2509.23039
arxiv.org/abs/2509.23039
Tried to sign up for a French class and took a placement test, hoping I can skip the very basics. Was initially happy that I "have A2 level", then found out that pretty much everyone who can say simple and complete sentences is placed into A2 classes.
September 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Tried to sign up for a French class and took a placement test, hoping I can skip the very basics. Was initially happy that I "have A2 level", then found out that pretty much everyone who can say simple and complete sentences is placed into A2 classes.
If only there is a tool to auto-update the line number references in a response to review comments document. Maybe LaTeX can do it?
September 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
If only there is a tool to auto-update the line number references in a response to review comments document. Maybe LaTeX can do it?
Meet the paper which I wrote in half a day (1st draft), and then almost didn't want to continue on...
🚨📜: "Practical Considerations for Crystallographic and Microstructure Mapping With Direct Electron Detector-Based Electron Backscatter Diffraction" by @tbizh95.bsky.social, Ruth Birch, Graeme Francolini, Ebru Karakurt, @bmatb.expmicromech.com in Microscopy and Microanalysis doi.org/10.1093/mam/...
August 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Meet the paper which I wrote in half a day (1st draft), and then almost didn't want to continue on...
On behalf of @expmicromech.com - the latest version of AstroEBSD is released, adding the newly developed AstroECP tool to our toolbox (see our preprint announcement). Also we (finally) tidied up the readme files, added descriptions of new features over the years, and created a change log.
July 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
On behalf of @expmicromech.com - the latest version of AstroEBSD is released, adding the newly developed AstroECP tool to our toolbox (see our preprint announcement). Also we (finally) tidied up the readme files, added descriptions of new features over the years, and created a change log.
Happy about this - the biggest collaboration project in my PhD :) and collaboration is indeed the spirit throughout the course.
Never thought this dataset could lead us here. As someone must have said, there are still so many information in these pats that one could look into and extract info...
Never thought this dataset could lead us here. As someone must have said, there are still so many information in these pats that one could look into and extract info...
🚨New #PrePrint - "Characterization of WSe2 films using reflection Kikuchi diffraction in the scanning electron microscope and multivariate statistical analyses" @tbizh95.bsky.social, J Holzer, T Vystavěl, M Kolíbal, E Paiva de Araújo, C. Stephens & @bmatb.expmicromech.com
arxiv.org/abs/2506.22575
arxiv.org/abs/2506.22575
July 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Happy about this - the biggest collaboration project in my PhD :) and collaboration is indeed the spirit throughout the course.
Never thought this dataset could lead us here. As someone must have said, there are still so many information in these pats that one could look into and extract info...
Never thought this dataset could lead us here. As someone must have said, there are still so many information in these pats that one could look into and extract info...
Switching from direct electron detection to direct photon detection, at least for an hour.
April 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Switching from direct electron detection to direct photon detection, at least for an hour.
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So we recently installed a new TFS Apreo 2 S microscope at UBC - and it has a TruePix direct electron detector for electron backscatter diffraction analysis.
In only 1 week, we are already getting some very fun data (here from Ni - 2 mill pts in < 30 mins). 🧪🔬
In only 1 week, we are already getting some very fun data (here from Ni - 2 mill pts in < 30 mins). 🧪🔬
March 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
So we recently installed a new TFS Apreo 2 S microscope at UBC - and it has a TruePix direct electron detector for electron backscatter diffraction analysis.
In only 1 week, we are already getting some very fun data (here from Ni - 2 mill pts in < 30 mins). 🧪🔬
In only 1 week, we are already getting some very fun data (here from Ni - 2 mill pts in < 30 mins). 🧪🔬
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A new arXiv preprint from James Zou suggests that quite a few academics are also using ChatGPT to write their peer reviews.
I don't have to explain what an utter shitshow this is going to be, do I?
I don't have to explain what an utter shitshow this is going to be, do I?
Monitoring AI-Modified Content at Scale: A Case Study on the...
We present an approach for estimating the fraction of text in a large corpus which is likely to be substantially modified or produced by a large language model (LLM). Our maximum likelihood model...
arxiv.org
March 17, 2024 at 10:40 PM
A new arXiv preprint from James Zou suggests that quite a few academics are also using ChatGPT to write their peer reviews.
I don't have to explain what an utter shitshow this is going to be, do I?
I don't have to explain what an utter shitshow this is going to be, do I?
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🚨New #ArXiv #PrePrint:
"Comparison of Kikuchi Diffraction Geometries in Scanning Electron Microscope" by
@tbizh95.bsky.social, Lukas Berners, Jakub Holzer, @bmatb.expmicromech.com
Exploring on- and off-axis TKD, EBSD and RKD geometries for crystallographic analysis
arxiv.org/abs/2411.13018
"Comparison of Kikuchi Diffraction Geometries in Scanning Electron Microscope" by
@tbizh95.bsky.social, Lukas Berners, Jakub Holzer, @bmatb.expmicromech.com
Exploring on- and off-axis TKD, EBSD and RKD geometries for crystallographic analysis
arxiv.org/abs/2411.13018
November 21, 2024 at 1:57 PM
🚨New #ArXiv #PrePrint:
"Comparison of Kikuchi Diffraction Geometries in Scanning Electron Microscope" by
@tbizh95.bsky.social, Lukas Berners, Jakub Holzer, @bmatb.expmicromech.com
Exploring on- and off-axis TKD, EBSD and RKD geometries for crystallographic analysis
arxiv.org/abs/2411.13018
"Comparison of Kikuchi Diffraction Geometries in Scanning Electron Microscope" by
@tbizh95.bsky.social, Lukas Berners, Jakub Holzer, @bmatb.expmicromech.com
Exploring on- and off-axis TKD, EBSD and RKD geometries for crystallographic analysis
arxiv.org/abs/2411.13018
(one way to ask for help with writing an abstract)
November 8, 2024 at 10:58 PM
(one way to ask for help with writing an abstract)
Wouldn't it be more fitting to simulate spot patterns using a "dotnet" language than a snake language 😂
August 16, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Wouldn't it be more fitting to simulate spot patterns using a "dotnet" language than a snake language 😂
Solid beverage choice for us diffraction people?
June 5, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Solid beverage choice for us diffraction people?
Workday students is such a downgrade from the super user-friendly UBC SSC..........
May 23, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Workday students is such a downgrade from the super user-friendly UBC SSC..........
Planespotting from my balcony last weekend. Unfortunately unlike my experiments, I can't zoom in by getting further away.
January 12, 2024 at 6:32 AM
Planespotting from my balcony last weekend. Unfortunately unlike my experiments, I can't zoom in by getting further away.
Haven't done planespotting in a long time ;)
December 31, 2023 at 12:36 AM
Haven't done planespotting in a long time ;)
1st ever poster sesson (as a presenter) done. Good to see some interest and explain my work to people, but geez, so exhausted.
December 10, 2023 at 2:28 AM
1st ever poster sesson (as a presenter) done. Good to see some interest and explain my work to people, but geez, so exhausted.
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New #PrePrint led by @tbizh95.bsky.social - we describe a simple and static electron microscopy stage to enable electron backscatter diffraction (#EBSD) in the scanning electron microscope, using an off the shelf direct electron detector 🧪
arxiv.org/abs/2311.14888
arxiv.org/abs/2311.14888
November 28, 2023 at 2:54 AM
New #PrePrint led by @tbizh95.bsky.social - we describe a simple and static electron microscopy stage to enable electron backscatter diffraction (#EBSD) in the scanning electron microscope, using an off the shelf direct electron detector 🧪
arxiv.org/abs/2311.14888
arxiv.org/abs/2311.14888