Adaptive Milling: imaging feedback-driven automated fabrication of consistently thin cryo-lamellae
Thomas S. Glen, Thomas M. Fish, Elaine M. L. Ho, Patrick Cleeve, Luı́s M. A. Perdigão, Nadisha Gamage, Ravi Teja Ravi, James Boris Gilchrist, Michele C. Darrow, Mark Basham, Maud Dumoux, Casper Berger
This paper introduces Adaptive Polishing, a machine learning-driven method for improving the consistency and thinness of cryo-lamellae during focused ion beam milling.
bioRxiv · Sep 22, 2026 · PreprintMolecular Biology