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Electron Backscattered Diffraction (EBSD) with a Cold Held Emission Gun (cFEG) SEM: Resolution, Sensitivity and Applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

Thomas C. Isabell  and
Vinayak P. Dravid
Thomas C. Isabell
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL60208
Vinayak P. Dravid
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL60208
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A thorough and complete assessment of microstructure of materials requires a wide variety of analytical techniques, which should be sensitive to at all length scales - from mms to atomic scale. While there have been rapid advances in imaging and spectroscopy techniques for microstructural analysis - at all length scales, techniques for crystallographic analysis of microstructure have primarily relied on bulk x-ray/neutron diffraction and TEM. X-ray and neutron diffraction techniques, though very powerful, are primarily bulk techniques and extraction of local crystallography is formidable if not impossible. On the other hand, TEM diffraction techniques provide precise crystallographic information, but at a much smaller length-scale and suffer from poor statistics and tedious specimen preparation procedures. With the advent of commercially available electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) and orientational imaging (OIM) systems for SEM, and sophisticated pattern recognition procedures, it is now possible to bridge the length-scale gap between bulk and TEM diffraction techniques.

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Materials Science Applications of Microdiffraction Methods in the SEM
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 3 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis '97, Microscopy Society of America 55th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 31st Annual Meeting, Histochemical Society 48th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, August 10-14, 1997 , August 1997 , pp. 557 - 558
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 1997

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