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Compact direct electron detectors are becoming increasingly popular in electron microscopy applications including electron backscatter diffraction, as they offer an opportunity for low cost and accessible microstructural analysis. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-17 Tianbi Zhang , Ruth Birch , Graeme Francolini , Ebru Karakurt Uluscu , Ben Britton

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 study of thin films and 2D materials, including transition metal dichalcogenides such as WSe$_2$ offers opportunities to leverage their properties in advanced sensors, quantum technologies, and device to optimize functional performance.…

Addressing the need for efficient and integrated multiscale crystallographic and defect analyses of advanced materials, this paper presents the implementation of a new multi-configuration detection system, integrating a single…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-19 Nohayla El-Khairaoui , Julien Guyon , Nathalie Gey , Luc Morhain , Nabila Maloufi

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

We use ultrasensitive electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) to map the local crystal orientations, grains, and grain boundaries in CH3NH3PbI3 (MAPI) perovskite thin films. Although the true grain structure is broadly consistent with the…

Measuring local chemistry of specific crystallographic features by atom probe tomography (APT) is facilitated by using transmission Kikuchi diffraction (TKD) to help position them sufficiently close to the apex of the needle-shaped…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-04 Baptiste Gault , Heena Khanchandani , T. S. Prithiv , Stoichko Antonov , T. Ben Britton

Quantitative interpretation of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) data of crystalline specimens often requires the accurate knowledge of the local crystal orientation. A method is presented which exploits momentum-resolved scanning TEM…

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

Based on the cross correlation analysis of the Kikuchi diffraction patterns high-resolution EBSD is a well established method to determine the internal stress in deformed crystalline materials. In many cases, however, the stress values…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-05 Szilvia Kalácska , István Groma , András Borbély , Péter Dusan Ispánovity

A method is presented for the registration and correlation of intrinsic property maps of materials, including data from nanoindentation hardness, Electron Back-Scattered Diffraction (EBSD), Electron Micro-Probe Analysis (EPMA). This highly…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-05 C. M. Magazzeni , H. M. Gardner , I. Howe , P. Gopon , J. C. Waite , D. Rugg , D. E. J. Armstrong , A. J. Wilkinson

The use of highly sensitive pixelated direct detectors has dramatically improved the performance of high energy instrumentation such as transmission electron microscopy. Here, we describe a recently developed monolithic active pixel sensor…

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

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

Bragg coherent X-ray diffraction imaging (BCDI) allows the three-dimensional (3D) measurement of lattice strain along the scattering vector for specific microcrystals. If at least three linearly independent reflections are measured, the 3D…

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

We examine the effect of pattern quality on the output of high-angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction (HR-EBSD) analyses. Band contrast, as a proxy for pattern quality, was varied by adjusting the number of frames averaged per…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-31 Harison S. Wiesman , David Wallis

Ferroelectric materials exhibit a switchable, spontaneous polarization at the unit cell level--an attractive property utilized in many emerging technologies including, among others, high-density memory storage, low-power transistors, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-15 Claire Griesbach , Tizian Scharsach , Morgan Trassin , Dennis M. Kochmann

We discuss the theoretical modelling of x-ray photoelectron diffraction (XPD) with hard x-ray excitation at up to 20 keV, using the dynamical theory of electron diffraction to illustrate the characteristic aspects of diffraction patterns…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Aimo Winkelmann , Charles S. Fadley , F. Javier Garcia de Abajo

The recently developed information-theoretic approach to crystallographic symmetry classifications and quantifications in two dimensions (2D) from digital transmission electron and scanning probe microscope images is adapted for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-10 Peter Moeck , Lukas von Koch