There is an increasing requirement for the acquisition of large two (2D) or three (3D) dimensional electron back scattered diffraction (EBSD) maps. It a well-known, but largely neglected fact, that EBSD maps may contain distortions. These include long-range distortions, which can be caused by interaction beam with sample geometry and it also arise from drift. In addition there are shorter range...

The fracture of ceramic solid electrolytes, driven by the plating lithium within cracks, has been identified as one fundamental issues to successfully develop solid-state batteries. Understanding mechanics at nanoscale is therefore essential. In this work, elastic and plastic properties are measured nanoindentation an electron microscope. Lithium metal samples characterised backscattered diffra...

The ability to map elastic or plastic strain on a microstructural level is critical to understanding and controlling deformation in structural alloys and ceramics. Electron back-scattered diffraction (EBSD) and related techniques, such as electron channeling patterns, have been used with some success to measure the plastic strain around cracks in Fe-3Si single crystals [1], Cu single crystals [...

Ultrashort pulsed lasers continue to see expanded application in many technologies such as microelectronics and precision manufacturing. The extremely short time duration (picosecond to femtosecond time scales) of these laser pulses create extremely non-equilibrium conditions during the heating and ablation of target materials. The result is generally efficient machining with little to no heat ...

This paper attempts to determine the mechanisms governing the grain growth process that occurs during lamination annealing of a cold-rolled, motor-lamination steel. A new simulation approach linking a Monte Carlo model, with EBSD scans used as input, has been employed to incorporate the effects of crystallographic texture on the simulated grain growth process. The results from the texture analy...

M. Jabłońska, I. Bednarczyk, K. Rodak, A. Śmiglewicz Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Institute of Materials Science Katowice, Poland This paper presents the results of structure analysis of Fe Al alloys after hot rolling deformation. Microstructure analysis were performed before and after deformation using a scanning transmission electron microsco...

Mechanistic descriptions of void-dominated ductile failure are largely based on studies from several decades ago that relied on optical microscopy techniques [1] [2]. This talk will discuss how modern techniques, such as scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD), site-specific focused ion beam (FIB) sample preparation, and transmission electron microscopy (TE...

A new method for reconstructing a three-dimensional microstructure using the focused ion beam-orientation imaging microscopy (FIB-OIM) is introduced. The technique is important for the study of three-dimensional microstructures of materials because it can automatically align (register) a series of parallel sections with both topological information and orientation information at the sub-microme...