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Basics of EBSD

EBSD Experiments

Undertaking Experiments

Sample Preparation

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System Components
Pattern Formation
Interpreting the diffraction pattern
Calibration
Indexing
Band Intensity
Summary

Basics of EBSD

Summary

• When an electron beam is incident on a tilted crystalline sample, electron backscatter diffraction patterns are formed on a suitably placed phosphor screen.

• The diffraction pattern consists of a set of Kikuchi bands which are characteristic of the sample crystal structure and orientation.

• The centre line of each Kikuchi band corresponds to the intersection with the phosphor screen of the diffracting plane responsible for the band.

• The position of the Kikuchi bands can be found automatically with the Hough transform and used to calculate the crystal orientation of the sample region that formed the pattern.

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