Introduction

Formation of Nanoporous Gold Studied by Transmission Electron Backscatter Diffraction

“…Two t-EBSD mappings were done on the same area from both sample sides. As t-EBSD provides the crystallographic information from the area near the exit surface of the transmitted electrons (Keller & Geiss, 2012;Brodusch et al, 2013aBrodusch et al, , 2013bSuzuki, 2013) these two scans yield the crystallographic mapping of both opposing surfaces (see Fig. 2a).…”

“…Transmission electron backscatter diffraction (t-EBSD) is a recent technique for microstructural analysis and it is based on the collection of Kikuchi diffraction patterns generated by the transmitted electrons in a scanning electron microscope (SEM). A key point is that the resolution is enhanced over the resolution achieved through standard EBSD mode (Keller & Geiss, 2012;Suzuki, 2013;Brodusch et al, 2013aBrodusch et al, , 2013b. The advent of this method has led to a multiple nomenclature like SEM transmission Kikuchi diffraction (Trimby, 2012) and also transmission electron forward scattered diffraction (Brodusch et al, 2013a(Brodusch et al, , 2013b.…”

“…A key point is that the resolution is enhanced over the resolution achieved through standard EBSD mode (Keller & Geiss, 2012;Suzuki, 2013;Brodusch et al, 2013aBrodusch et al, , 2013b. The advent of this method has led to a multiple nomenclature like SEM transmission Kikuchi diffraction (Trimby, 2012) and also transmission electron forward scattered diffraction (Brodusch et al, 2013a(Brodusch et al, , 2013b. In this paper, we stick to the term that was coined in the original publication, namely t-EBSD (Geiss et al, 2011).…”

“…The aforementioned improvement in resolution is owing to the smaller beam diameter at the exit plane of the specimen surface (Keller & Geiss, 2012). Another advantage of t-EBSD includes the fact that the technique is accessible for all instrumental setups with an EBSD system, provided that the specimen is like transmission electron microscope (TEM) electron transparent at SEM acceleration voltages and that it can be tilted in the opposite direction compared with the standard EBSD case (Keller & Geiss, 2012;Trimby, 2012;Brodusch et al, 2013aBrodusch et al, , 2013bSuzuki, 2013).…”

libMCXray: A Monte Carlo Simulator for Signal Analysis inside Dragonfly Software

“…Finally, a crucial use of Monte Carlo simulations is to perform accurate elemental quantification from energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) data. Matrix correction factors can be computed using Monte Carlo simulations and then used to calculate accurate compositional information from X-ray intensities [9–11]. This allows quantification to be done without the need for standards or pre-measured experimental databases [10].…”