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Present State of Electron Backscatter Diffraction and Prospective Developments

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Electron Backscatter Diffraction in Materials Science

Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), when employed as an additional characterization technique to a scanning electron microscope (SEM), enables individual grain orientations, local texture, point-to-point orientation correlations, and phase identification and distributions to be determined routinely on the surfaces of bulk polycrystals. The application has experienced rapid acceptance in metallurgical, materials, and geophysical laboratories within the past decade (Schwartz et al. 2000) due to the wide availability of SEMs, the ease of sample preparation from the bulk, the high speed of data acquisition, and the access to complementary information about the microstructure on a submicron scale. From the same specimen area, surface structure and morphology of the microstructure are characterized in great detail by the relief and orientation contrast in secondary and backscatter electron images, element distributions are accessed by energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), wavelength dispersive spectroscopy (WDS), or cathodoluminescence analysis, and the orientations of single grains and phases can now be determined, as a complement, by EBSD.

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Acknowledgments

The ion blocking pattern in Fig. 1.7 is a reprint from Tulinov (1965). Permission for reproduction is gratefully acknowledged to Prof. Dr. A.F. Tulinov, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk, Moscow. RS would like to thank Prof. Dr. U. Wendt, University of Magdeburg, Germany, for kindly providing the orientation contrast micrograph in Fig. 1.8. The work of MK and AJS was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344.

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    Mukul Kumar & Adam J. Schwartz

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Schwarzer, R.A., Field, D.P., Adams, B.L., Kumar, M., Schwartz, A.J. (2009). Present State of Electron Backscatter Diffraction and Prospective Developments. In: Schwartz, A., Kumar, M., Adams, B., Field, D. (eds) Electron Backscatter Diffraction in Materials Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88136-2_1

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