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Orientation mapping is a widely used technique for revealing the microstructure of a polycrystalline sample. The crystalline orientation at each point in the sample is determined by analysis of the diffraction pattern, a process known as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Peter Mahler Larsen , Søren Schmidt

We report a first exploration of High-angular-Resolution Electron Backscatter Diffraction, without using simulated Electron Backscatter Diffraction patterns as a reference, for absolute stress and orientation measurements in polycrystalline…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-26 Tijmen Vermeij , Marc De Graef , Johan Hoefnagels

TrueEBSD is an open-source MATLAB program for image alignment and spatial distortion correction of images and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) maps. We have re-implemented TrueEBSD as an add-on to MTEX, an established toolbox for…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-04 Vivian Tong , Stefan Olovsjö , Rachid M'Saoubi , Mathias Grabner , Manuel Petersmann , Liam Wright

Resolving pseudosymmetry has long presented a challenge for electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and has been notoriously challenging in the case of tetragonal ZrO2 in particular. In this work, a method is proposed to resolve…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-11 Edward L. Pang , Peter M. Larsen , Christopher A. Schuh

We present kikuchipy, an open-source toolbox for analysis of electron backscatter diffraction patterns, written in Python. The software is capable of both Hough and dictionary indexing and orientation and/or projection center refinement of…

Accurately indexing pseudosymmetric materials has long proven challenging for electron backscatter diffraction. The recent emergence of intensity-based indexing approaches promises an enhanced ability to resolve pseudosymmetry compared to…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-08 Edward L. Pang , Christopher A. Schuh

The routine and unique determination of minor phases in microstructures is critical to materials science. In metallurgy alone, applications include alloy and process development and the understanding of degradation in service. We develop a…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-22 T. P. McAuliffe , A. Foden , C. Bilsland , D. Daskalaki-Mountanou , D. Dye , T. B. Britton

4D-STEM-based orientation and phase mapping has enabled rapid microstructure quantification that can be directly combined with standard TEM- and STEM-based imaging modes. Typically, orientation mapping is coupled with beam precession (i.e.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-01 Yichen Yang , Olivier Pierron , Josh Kacher , David Rowenhorst

Electron diffraction through a thin patterned silicon membrane can be used to create complex spatial modulations in electron distributions by varying the intensity of different reflections using parameters such as crystallographic…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-05-30 L. E. Malin , W. S. Graves , M. Holl , J. C. H. Spence , E. A. Nanni , R. K. Li , X. Shen , S. Weathersby

Electron backscatter diffraction is a powerful tool for mapping crystallographic microstructures. However, the primary crux to improving orientation accuracy and applying the technique to challenging materials lies in the correct…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-29 Claire Griesbach , Dennis M. Kochmann

EBSD is a foundational technique for characterizing crystallographic orientation, phase distribution, and lattice strain. Embedded within EBSD patterns lies latent information on dislocation structures, subtly encoded due to their deviation…

Electron channeling contrast imaging (ECCI) is a scanning electron microscopy (SEM) based technique that enables bulk-sample characterization of crystallographic defects (e.g. dislocations, stacking faults, low angle boundaries). Despite…

Serial crystallography experiments routinely produce thousands of diffraction patterns from crystals in random orientations. To turn this stream of images into a usable dataset, each pattern must be indexed before integration and merging…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Marc M Nasser , Frédéric Poitevin , Kevin M Dalton

The recent development of electron sensitive and pixelated detectors has attracted the use of four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM). Here, we present a precession electron diffraction assisted 4D-STEM…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-04 Jiwon Jeong , Niels Cautaerts , Gerhard Dehm , Christian H. Liebscher

The appearance of direct electron detectors marked a new era for electron diffraction. Their high sensitivity and low noise opens the possibility to extend electron diffraction from transmission electron microscopes (TEM) to lower energies…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Nikita Denisov , Andrey Orekhov , Johan Verbeeck

Scanning nanobeam electron diffraction (NBED) with fast pixelated detectors is a valuable technique for rapid, spatially resolved mapping of lattice structure over a wide range of length scales. However, intensity variations caused by…

The Kikuchi bands arise from Bragg diffraction of incoherent electrons scattered within a crystalline specimen and can be observed in both the transmission and reflection modes of scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Converging, rocking, or…

The design of novel materials hinges on the understanding of structure-property relationships. However, in recent times, our capability to synthesize a large number of materials has outpaced our speed at characterizing them. While the…

We demonstrate that artificial bipolar structure can be detected using spectro-astrometry when the point spread function (PSF) of a point source suffers distortion in a relatively wide slit. Spectro-astrometry is a technique which allows us…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Brannigan , M. Takami , A. Chrysostomou , J. Bailey

The development of four-dimensional (4D) scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) using fast detectors has opened-up new avenues for addressing some of long-standing challenges in electron imaging. One of these challenges is how to…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-19 Yu-Tsun Shao , Renliang Yuan , Haw-Wen Hsiao , Qun Yang , Yang Hu , Jian-Min Zuo