Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD)
Slip lines in a nickel superalloy
OIM map of intergranular fraction in a nickel superalloy. The box shows a twin which has fractured. Twins are generally assumed to be fracture resistant.
S. I. Wright and D. P. Field (1998). "Recent studies of local texture and its influence on failure." Materials Science and Engineering A 257: 165-170.
Orientation map of a nickel-based superalloy sample
This map was collected at approximately 1000 indexed patterns per second with an incident beam current of approximately 4 nA at 20 kV, with indexing success rates greater than 99 percent. This data represents a 53 percent improvement with the Hikari XP over the previous generation of the Hikari camera.
Using PRIAS™, differences in regions of interest (ROIs) can be used to determine grain boundary positions from an Inconel 600 sample
Map from a nickel sample
Orientation maps from 3 out of 55 sections through a nickel sample and the resulting 3D data cube, along with a twinned grain reconstructed from the data.
Orientation map collected at 100 pA beam current on an Inconel 600 superalloy sample
Micro X-ray Fluorescence (Micro-XRF)
Au/Ni/Cu layer system with electron (black) and X-ray (red) excitation