Microscopy Web Resources and News

Electron Backscatter Diffraction for Scanning Electron Microscopes Resources on the Web


Investigations and Applications of Microscopy

Material Characterization Application Literature

This section of the EDAX website contains micro EDXRF, EDS, and EBSD articles in pdf format for downloading. EBSD articles on the microstruture of a variety of materials including polycrystalline ceramics, twinned materials, austinite steel, stainless steel oxide scales, thin film photovoltaics,archaeological specimens, and minerals.

Lectures and Demonstration Videos

Electron Backscattering Diffraction

Ken Mingard's overview of Electron Backscatter Diffraction EBSD and areas where it is being used at NPL.

Technical Overviews of Microscopes and Microscopy

EBSD Electron Backscatter Diffraction Analysis

EBSD.com from is an educational web site that covers all aspects of Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD). The site includes a technical overview covering the principles of diffraction and pattern formation and how EBSD is used for phase discrimination, texture analysis, crystal orientation, and grain boundary discrimination. Experimental procedures, sample preparation and applications are also covered. Pages from the site can be booked marked to create a custom PDF.

Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD)

General EBSD Bibliography

Compiled by EDAX, this bibliography contains references to papers primarily found in archival journals and conference proceedings where EBSD is either the focus or used in the analysis.

Home for EBSD by Professor DJ Dingley

Tutorials on Polycrystals and Strain measurement using EBSD, An introduction without much math.

EBSD Papers from EDAX

Overviews on electron backscatter diffraction techniques that cover strain analysis, high speed EBSD, multi-length characterization, high speed orientation mapping, characterization of multi-component materials and more.

Software for Image Analysis and Microscopy

MTEX - A MATLAB Toolbox for Quantitative Texture Analysis

MTEX 2.0 software is for detecting grains and grain boundaries in EBSD data and computing manifold grains statics for them.