4. Conclusion
Over the past two decades, automated Kikuchi diffraction in transmission (TKD in TEM and SEM) and backscatter mode (known as EBSD in SEM) has gradually evolved into a valuable tool for materials characterization. Kikuchi diffraction provides, on a submicrometric scale, a detailed quantitative description of grain orientations, material phases, deformation state, local texture, intuitive visualizations of microstructure in the form of orientation maps and dynamic experiments. Recently, there has been renewed interest in TKD, particularly as a complementary device to an EBSD system enabling nanoscale resolution. Transmission studies require time consuming and destructive film preparation. The user must bear in mind that, in this case, a small area examined may not be representative, and statistically unreliable results will be obtained. In fact, EBSD has largely supplanted orientation mapping...
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Bibliography
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Software
EBSD equipment manufacturers provide sophisticated, user-friendly soft-ware for quantitative texture measurement and analysis. In addition, soft-ware packages and toolboxes are available from the following companies:
Further reading
The journal Textures, Stress and Microstructures would give an overview of the development of texture research in the years from 1972 to 2010.
INOUE (H.), TAKAYAMA (Y.) and YOSHINAGA (N.). – 19 th International Conference on Textures of Materials (ICOTOM 19) . IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering...
Standards
- Standard Practice for Determining Average Grain Size Using Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) in Fully Recrystallized Polycrystalline Materials - ASTM E2627-13 - 2019
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