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Analysis of Multiphase Materials Using Electron Backscatter Diffraction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

S.I. Wright
Affiliation:
TexSEM Laboratories, Inc. Provo, UT84604, USA
D.P. Field
Affiliation:
TexSEM Laboratories, Inc. Provo, UT84604, USA
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Image analysis techniques coupled with crystallography computer codes have been used to index electron backscatter diffraction patterns (EBSPs). The ability to automatically obtain the crystallographic orientation from EBSPs coupled with computer control of the electron beam (or stage) in a scanning electron microscope (SEM) provides a much more complete description of the spatial distribution of crystallographic orientation in polycrystalline materials than has been previously attainable using conventional metallography techniques. Orientation data obtained using this technique can be used to form images reflecting the spatial arrangement of crystallographic orientation in a microstructure. Such images enable the topological features of a microstructure to be linked with the orientation characteristics. The formation of these images, as well as the data collection technique, is sometimes termed Orientation Imaging Microscopy (OIM). The utility of this technique for exploring the property/structure relationship in polycrystalline material has been demonstrated by numerous researchers. However, as yet, this technique has almost exclusively been applied to single phase materials.

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Materials Science Applications of Microdiffraction Methods in the SEM
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 1997

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