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Electron backscatter diffraction
About: Electron backscatter diffraction is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 15184 publications have been published within this topic receiving 317847 citations. The topic is also known as: EBSD.
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TL;DR: In this article, a partial austenitization followed by Q&P paths, at which the partitioning step is effectuated at a temperature equal to the quenching temperature, has been applied to a low-carbon steel.
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TL;DR: It was found that the best effective spatial resolution for aluminium alloys in a tungsten‐filament scanning electron microscope (SEM) was obtained for an intermediate probe current which provided a compromise between pattern quality and specimen interaction volume.
Abstract: Characterization of microstructures containing small grains or low-angle grain boundaries by electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) is limited by the spatial and angular resolution limits of the technique. It was found that the best effective spatial resolution (60 nm) for aluminium alloys in a tungsten-filament scanning electron microscope (SEM) was obtained for an intermediate probe current which provided a compromise between pattern quality and specimen interaction volume. The same specimens and EBSD equipment when used with a field-emission gun SEM showed an improvement in spatial resolution by a factor of 2–3. For characterizing low-angle boundary microstructures, the precision of determining relative orientations is a limiting factor. It was found that the orientation noise was directly related to the probe current and this was interpreted in terms of the effect of probe current on the quality of the diffraction patterns.
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