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TILT-A-WHIRL: a texture analysis package for 3D rendering of pole figures using Matlab

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2013

Mark A. Rodriguez*
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1411
Megan R. Pearl
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1411
Mark H. Van Benthem
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1411
James J. M. Griego
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1411
Jamin R. Pillars
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1411
*
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Electronic mail: [email protected]

Abstract

A new Matlab-based software suite called Tilt-A-Whirl has been applied to XRD data from textured gold films electro-deposited onto nickel substrates. The software routines facilitate phase identification, texture analysis via pole figure visualization, and macrostrain determination. The use of principal component analysis with multivariate curve resolution (PCA/MCR) revealed the extraction of texture components. The unusual hardness properties of one Au film (deposited from a 30% gold depleted BDT-200 bath) were found to be dependent on the (210) out-of-plane preferred orientation of the polycrystalline gold film. The progressive nucleation of Au crystallites during electro-plating has been tied to improved hardness properties of this film.

Type
Technical Articles
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 2013 

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