We have characterized elastic strain fields associated with the wet-thermal oxidation of buried AlxGa1-xAs (x ~ 0.98) layers of thickness 80 nm, situated between GaAs layers of thickness 200 nm, on a GaAs substrate. The compressive strains accompanying oxidation can exceed 6% and may lead to interlayer delamination or fracture. Automated electron backscatter diffraction measurements were perfor...

Microstructural characterization of plutonium by electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) has been previously elusive primarily because of the extreme toxicity and surface oxidation rates associated with plutonium metal. In this work, initial electron backscattered diffraction pattern (EBSP) observations of a plutonium-gallium (Pu-Ga) alloy were made. Samples were prepared using standard metal...

Calcium carbonate biominerals are frequently analysed in materials science due to their abundance, diversity and unique material properties. Aragonite nacre is intensively studied, but less information is available about the material properties of biogenic calcite, despite its occurrence in a wide range of structures in different organisms. In particular, there is insufficient knowledge about h...

Slow strain rate tests on hydrogen-containing specimens of PH13–8Mo maraging stainless steel showed H-assisted subcritical quasi-cleavage cracking, accelerating material failure. Fractographic analysis revealed that is composed flat brittle areas and rougher areas. Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) was performed a secondary subcritically grown crack. High resolution EBSD significant cryst...

Electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) has replaced electron channeling and selected area electron channeling patterns (SACPs) for many scanning electron microscopy (SEM) based crystallographic studies, due to the rapid collection rates and high spatial resolution of EBSD. Nevertheless, a number of SEM techniques, for example electron channeling contrast imaging (ECCI), are better served usi...

Hybrid Layered Manufacturing (HLM) combines the benefits of both subtractive and Additive Manufacturing (AM). In this paper authors did characterization of AM components by using Kernel Average Misorientation (KAM), Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) and hardness tester. The main focus is on matrix integrity during Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) deposition and surface quality during machinin...

This study combines nanoindentation, electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and crystal plasticity finite element analysis to examine the anisotropy in the indentation behaviour of individual grains within an α-Ti polycrystal. Nanoindentation is utilized to mechanically probe small volumes of material within grains for which orientations are known from prior EBSD mapping. Both indentation modu...