Correction to: Nature Nanotechnology https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01172-7. Published online 18 August 2022.

In the version of this article initially published online, the origin of the term “image mode” was not credited to Oh and colleagues (Lee, I.-H. et al. Nat. Commun. 11, 3649 (2020)), as is now amended with an additional reference in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.