Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD)
The First OIM
S.I. Wright & K. Kunze, Yale University 1991
40% Channel Die Compressed Aluminum
Friction stir welding (FSW) is a relatively new solid-state joining technique. An aluminum FSW was examined with OIM. Several papers have reported the application of OIM to the study of friction stir processing.
Aluminum Thin Film
Aluminum Extrusion
Deformed Aluminum at 650 indexed points per second
Alumina
Orientation map and corresponding texture for a hot-pressed Al203 sample
S.I. Wright, M.M. Nowell and J.F. Bingert (2007). “A Comparison of Textures Measured Using X-Ray and Electron Backscatter Diffraction.” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A 38: 1845-1855.
RGB colored PRIAS™ image from transmission-EBSD sample of rolled aluminum
Aluminum Carabiner
Orientation map of a forged Aluminum cross-section
Misorientation boundary map for extruded Aluminum
Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS)
A Monte Carlo Simulation illustrating the interaction volume for a 15 kV beam on a pure Aluminum sample.
A Monte Carlo Simulation of the interaction volume of a 5 kV beam with the same Aluminum sample.
An X-ray map for aluminum shown in four different palettes: reverse, color, thermal and 3-band logarithmic