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Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) is a well-established method of characterisation for crystalline materials. This technique can rapidly acquire and index diffraction patterns to provide phase and orientation information about the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-04 Alexander Foden , David Collins , Angus Wilkinson , Thomas Benjamin Britton

Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) is a technique used to measure crystallographic features in the scanning electron microscope. The technique is highly automated and readily accessible in many laboratories. EBSD pattern indexing is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Thomas Benjamin Britton , Vivian Tong , Jim Hickey , Alex Foden , Angus Wilkinson

We present a few recent developments in the field of electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD). We highlight how open source algorithms and open data formats can be used to rapidly to develop microstructural insight of materials. We include…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-15 Alex Foden , Alessandro Previero , Thomas Benjamin Britton

In materials science and particularly electron microscopy, Electron Back-scatter Diffraction (EBSD) is a common and powerful mapping technique for collecting local crystallographic data at the sub-micron scale. The quality of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Florian Strub , Marie-Agathe Charpagne , Tresa M. Pollock

Crystalline phase structure is essential for understanding the performance and properties of a material. Therefore, this study identified and quantified the crystalline phase structure of a sample based on the diffraction pattern observed…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-27 Ryo Murakami , Yoshitaka Matsushita , Kenji Nagata , Hayaru Shouno , Hideki Yoshikawa

To engineer the next generation of advanced materials we must understand their microstructure, and this requires microstructural characterization. This can be achieved through the collection of high contrast, data rich, and insightful…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-09 Tianbi Zhang , T. Ben Britton

Microstructure characterisation has been greatly enhanced through the use of electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), where rich maps are generated through analysis of the crystal phase and orientation in the scanning electron microscope…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-15 Vivian S Tong , Alexander J Knowles , David Dye , T Ben Britton

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…

Transmission electron diffraction is a powerful and versatile structural probe for the characterization of a broad range of materials, from nanocrystalline thin films to single crystals. With recent developments in fast electron detectors…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-06 Jian-Min Zuo , Renliang Yuan , Yu-Tsun Shao , Haw-Wen Hsiao , Saran Pidaparthy , Yang Hu , Qun Yang , Jiong Zhang

We present spherical analysis of electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) patterns with two new algorithms: (1) band localisation and band profile analysis using the spherical Radon transform; (2) orientation determination using spherical…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-04 Ralf Hielscher , Felix Bartel , Thomas Benjamin Britton

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

Properties of crystalline materials are closely linked to microstructure arising from the spatial arrangement, orientation, and phase of nanocrystals. Rapid characterization of crystalline microstructure can accelerate the identification of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-16 Kwanghwi Je , Ellis R. Kennedy , Sungin Kim , Yao Yang , Erik H. Thiede

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

Materials property predictions have improved from advances in machine learning algorithms, delivering materials discoveries and novel insights through data-driven models of structure-property relationships. Nearly all available models rely…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-13 Yiqun Wang , Xiao-Jie Zhang , Fei Xia , Elsa A. Olivetti , Ram Seshadri , James M. Rondinelli

Analysis of distortions of the crystal lattice within individual mineral grains is central to the investigation of microscale processes that control and record tectonic events. These distortions are generally combinations of lattice…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-04 David Wallis , Lars N. Hansen , T. Ben Britton , Angus J. Wilkinson

Diffraction is the most common method to solve for unknown or partially known crystal structures. However, it remains a challenge to determine the crystal structure of a new material that may have nanoscale size or heterogeneities. Here we…

Computational methods that automatically extract knowledge from data are critical for enabling data-driven materials science. A reliable identification of lattice symmetry is a crucial first step for materials characterization and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-19 A. Ziletti , D. Kumar , M. Scheffler , L. M. Ghiringhelli

When a sample's X-ray diffraction pattern (XRD) is measured, the corresponding crystal structure is usually determined by searching for similar XRD patterns in the database. However, if a similar XRD pattern is not found, it is tremendously…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-08 Joohwi Lee , Junpei Oba , Nobuko Ohba , Seiji Kajita

The robust and automated determination of crystal symmetry is of utmost importance in material characterization and analysis. Recent studies have shown that deep learning (DL) methods can effectively reveal the correlations between X-ray or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Leslie Ching Ow Tiong , Jeongrae Kim , Sang Soo Han , Donghun Kim

Precise and accurate determination of crystallographic orientation is crucial for engineering van der Waals heterostructures, where the twist angle between layers controls emergent electronic and optical properties. While Electron…

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