Electron backscatter diffraction EBSD is a powerful technique applicable to a range of microstructural analyses, including texture, grain size, boundary characterization, phase distribution and inter-phase orientation relationships. The technique is suited to solving an increasing range of analytical problems on the um to mm scale. However, best results are only obtained with a good understandi...

Chemical vapor deposition of graphene on Cu often employs polycrystalline Cu substrates with diverse facets, grain boundaries (GBs), annealing twins, and rough sites. Using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electron-backscatter diffraction (EBSD), and Raman spectroscopy on graphene and Cu, we find that Cu substrate crystallography affects graphene growth more than facet roughness. We determin...

In conjunction with microstructural interpretation, variation of the Sr/Ca ratio in otoliths of Platycephalus bassensis have been determined in an effort to uncover the role of biomineralisation in otolith trace element uptake. After subsequent microstructural analysis by Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD), Sr/Ca ratios across otolith growth rings were determined by Electron Probe Microana...

Glass-ceramics grown from a glass of the composition Sr2TiSi2.45O8.9 (STS 45) are analyzed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD). Oriented nucleation with the c-axes preferably perpendicular to the surface is detected. A very strong 001-texture is observed after only 10 μm of growth into the bulk, making this the first system in which an orientation p...

The focus of this study is the degradation of a near pearlitic microstructure under combined mechanical and thermal loadings leading to changes in mechanical properties. More specifically, it is examined how the orientation gradients inside the pearlite colonies, affect the spheroidisation. Samples were extracted from virgin near pearlitic railway wheels and prestrained, thereafter heat treated...