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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

The technique known as 4D-STEM has recently emerged as a powerful tool for the local characterization of crystalline structures in materials, such as cathode materials for Li-ion batteries or perovskite materials for photovoltaics. However,…

We describe a lattice-based crystallographic approximation for the analysis of distorted crystal structures via Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) in the scanning electron microscope. EBSD patterns are closely linked to local lattice…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-02 Aimo Winkelmann , Gert Nolze , Grzegorz Cios , Tomasz Tokarski

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

Three dimensional electron back-scattered diffraction (EBSD) microscopy is a critical tool in many applications in materials science, yet its data quality can fluctuate greatly during the arduous collection process, particularly via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Harry Dong , Sean Donegan , Megna Shah , Yuejie Chi

Electron backscatter diffraction is a widely used technique for nano- to micro-scale analysis of crystal structure and orientation. Backscatter patterns produced by an alloy solid solution matrix and its ordered superlattice exhibit only…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-13 Thomas P McAuliffe , David Dye , T Ben Britton

The accuracy of the information that can be extracted from electron diffraction patterns is often limited by the presence of optical distortions. Existing distortion characterization techniques typically require knowledge of the reciprocal…

During the last few years, serial electron crystallography (Serial Electron Diffraction, SerialED) has been gaining attention for the structure determination of crystalline compounds that are sensitive to the irradiation of the electron…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-29 Sergi Plana-Ruiz , Penghan Lu , Govind Ummethala , Rafal Dunin-Borkowski

Scanning electron microscopy combined with electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and electron channeling provides rich crystallographic contrast, but the mutual influence of channeling-in and channeling-out is often simplified or…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-28 T. Ben Britton , M. Haroon Qaiser , Ruth M. Birch

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

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

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…

In this study, the possibility of utilizing a computer vision algorithm, i.e., demons registration, to accurately remap electron backscatter diffraction patterns for high resolution electron backscatter diffraction applications is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-30 Chaoyi Zhu , Kevin Kaufmann , Kenneth Vecchio

The association of scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and the detection of a diffraction pattern at each probe position (so-called 4D-STEM) represents one of the most promising approaches to analyze structural properties of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-01-26 Leonardo Corrêa , Eduardo Ortega , Arturo Ponce , Mônica Cotta , Daniel Ugarte

The structure of low-carbon steel after twist extrusion is tested with using electron backscattered diffraction. It has been shown that warm twist extrusion results in grain refinement with conservation of a substantial part of high-angle…

Reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) is a powerful tool for characterizing crystal surface structures. However, the setup geometry leads to distorted and complicated patterns, which are not straightforward to link to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-25 Chong Liu , Kai Chang , Ke Zou

Diffraction pattern analysis can be used to reveal the crystalline structure of materials, and this information is used to nano- and micro-structure of advanced engineering materials that enable modern life. For nano-structured materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-13 Tianbi Zhang , T. Ben Britton

We introduce a novel reflection-mode diffraction tomography technique that enables simultaneous recovery of forward and backward scattering information for high-resolution 3D refractive index reconstruction. Our technique works by imaging a…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-12 Tongyu Li , Jiabei Zhu , Yi Shen , Lei Tian

Electron backscatter diffraction is one of the most prevalent techniques used for microstructural characterization. In recent years, there has been an increase in the use of data-driven methods to analyze raw Kikuchi patterns. However, most…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-21 Qi Zhang , Santiago Benito , Sebastian Weber , Markus Stricker

Experimentally obtained X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns can be difficult to solve, precluding the full characterization of materials, pharmaceuticals, and geological compounds. Herein, we propose a method based upon a multi-objective…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-09 Stefano Racioppi , Alberto Otero De la Roza , Samad Hajinazar , Eva Zurek