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Basics of EBSD

EBSD Experiments

Undertaking Experiments

Sample Preparation

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Point Analysis
Crystal Orientation Mapping
Pattern Quality Maps
Grains
Texture
Phase discrimination
Summary

Types of EBSD experiment

Summary

• A crystal orientation map can be acquired by scanning the electron beam over a sample and analysing the diffraction pattern formed at each point.

• Crystal orientation maps definitively reveal the sample microstructure and can measure grain size distributions, grain boundary misorientations and special boundaries and show their location in the sample.

• The individual crystal orientation measurements can be displayed to show crystallographic texture or preferred orientation.  Texture components can be separated and the regions of the sample contributing to those components shown.

• EBSD can also be used to distinguish crystallographically different phases and to show their location, abundance and preferred orientations.

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