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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

This paper presents a novel approach for denoising Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) patterns using diffusion models. We propose a two-stage training process with a UNet-based architecture, incorporating an auxiliary regression head…

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In the technique of Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD), the accurate detection and identification of different phases existing in a sample is often limited by overlapping Kikuchi diffraction patterns originating from the extended…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-23 Grzegorz Cios , Aimo Winkelmann , Tomasz Tokarski , Wiktor Bednarczyk , Piotr Bała

Four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM) of local atomic diffraction patterns is emerging as a powerful technique for probing intricate details of atomic structure and atomic electric fields. However, efficient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-15 Xin Li , Ondrej E. Dyck , Mark P. Oxley , Andrew R. Lupini , Leland McInnes , John Healy , Stephen Jesse , Sergei V. Kalinin

Ultrasound images are commonly formed by sequential acquisition of beam-steered scan-lines. Minimizing the number of required scan-lines can significantly enhance frame rate, field of view, energy efficiency, and data transfer speeds.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Simon W. Penninga , Hans van Gorp , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

High quality scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) data acquisition and analysis has become increasingly important due to the commercial demand for investigating the properties of complex materials such as battery cathodes;…

Electron beam probe (EBP) is a new principle detector, which makes use of a low-intensity and low-energy electron beam to measure the transverse profile, bunch shape, beam neutralization and beam wake field of an intense beam with small…

This paper discusses the reconstruction of partially sampled spectrum-images to accelerate the acquisition in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). The problem of image reconstruction has been widely considered in the literature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-05 Etienne Monier , Thomas Oberlin , Nathalie Brun , Xiaoyan Li , Marcel Tencé , Nicolas Dobigeon

Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) patterns can exhibit Kikuchi bands with inverted contrast due to anomalous absorption. This can be observed, for example, on samples with nanoscale topography, in case of a low tilt backscattering…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-22 Grzegorz Cios , Aimo Winkelmann , Gert Nolze , Tomasz Tokarski , Benedykt R. Jany , Piotr Bała

Traditional image acquisition for cryo focused ion-beam scanning electron microscopy tomography often sees thousands of images being captured over a period of many hours, with immense data sets being produced. When imaging beam sensitive…

Analytical electron microscopy and spectroscopy of biological specimens, polymers, and other beam sensitive materials has been a challenging area due to irradiation damage. There is a pressing need to develop novel imaging and spectroscopic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Yan Zhang , G. M. Dilshan Godaliyadda , Nicola Ferrier , Emine B. Gulsoy , Charles A. Bouman , Charudatta Phatak

High angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction (HR-EBSD) affords an increase in angular resolution, as compared to 'conventional' Hough transform based EBSD, of two orders of magnitude, enabling measurements of relative…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-03 T Ben Britton , James L R Hickey

Modern Flash X-ray diffraction Imaging (FXI) acquires diffraction signals from single biomolecules at a high repetition rate from X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs), easily obtaining millions of 2D diffraction patterns from a single…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Jing Liu , Stefan Engblom , Carl Nettelblad

The three scanning electron microscope diffraction based techniques of electron channelling patterns (ECPs), electron channelling contrast imaging (ECCI), and electron back scatter diffraction (EBSD) are reviewed. The dynamical diffraction…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-12 AJ Wilkinson , PB Hirsch

Four-dimensional Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (4D-STEM) is a powerful technique for high-resolution and high-precision materials characterization at multiple length scales, including the characterization of beam-sensitive…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-08-11 Hsu-Chih Ni , Renliang Yuan , Jiong Zhang , Jian-Min Zuo

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

We establish a series of deep convolutional neural networks to automatically analyze position averaged convergent beam electron diffraction patterns. The networks first calibrate the zero-order disk size, center position, and rotation…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-06-05 Weizong Xu , James M. LeBeau

Electron back-scatter diffraction (EBSD) has traditionally relied upon methods such as the Hough transform and dictionary Indexing to interpret diffraction patterns and extract crystallographic orientation. However, these methods encounter…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-04 Meghraj Prajapat , Alankar Alankar

Ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) instruments typically operate at kHz or lower repetition rates and rely on indirect detection of electrons. However, these experiments encounter limitations because they are required to use electron…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Fernando Rodriguez Diaz , Mark Mero , Kasra Amini

Three-dimensional electron diffraction (3D ED) has emerged as a powerful method for solving the structures of sub-micron-sized particles down to nanoparticles. However, it faces technical challenges when applied to beam-sensitive samples or…