Strain Tensor Mapping using Electron Backscatter Diffraction

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• Angus Wilkinson, University of Oxford
• Wednesday 06 February 2008, 15:00-16:00
• T001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

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In this presentation we will briefly review earlier attempts to study local elastic and plastic strains distributions using EBSD before moving on to discuss recent cross-correlation based analysis of EBSD patterns. Cross-correlation methods can be used to determine small shifts in features within an EBSD pattern compared to a reference pattern. Pattern shift measurements at many regions of the patterns can be used to establish a best fit strain and rotation tensor. Shift measurements at ±0.05 pixels allow the elements of the strain tensor (and small misorientations) to be measured to ±10-4 (and ±0.006° for rotations). This is a significant improvement in the angular resolution compared to the conventional linear Hough (or Radon) transform based EBSD analysis. The new cross-correlation based analysis has been applied to several varied materials science problems. Results from functional (SiGe/Si mesa and GaN layers) and structural materials (crack tips, and nanoindentations) will be used to illustrate the use of the method in studying both elastic and plastic deformation.

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