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Three-Dimensional X-Ray Structural Microscopy Using Polychromatic Microbeams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Gene E. Ice  and
Bennett C. Larson
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Abstract

In this article, the authors describe the principle and application of differential-aperture x-ray microscopy (DAXM). This recently developed scanning x-ray microprobe technique uses a confocal or traveling pinhole camera approach to determine the crystal structure, crystallographic orientation, and elastic and plastic strain tensors within bulk materials. The penetrating properties of x-rays make the technique applicable to optically opaque as well as transparent materials, and it is nondestructive; this provides for in situ, submicrometer-resolution characterization of local crystal structure and for measurements of microstructure evolution on mesoscopic length scales from tenths to hundreds of micrometers. Examples are presented that illustrate the use of DAXM to study grain and subgrain morphology, grain-boundary types and networks, and local intra- and intergranular elastic and plastic deformation. Information of this type now provides a direct link between the actual structure and evolution in materials and increasingly powerful computer simulations and multiscale modeling of materials microstructure and evolution.

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deformationmicrodiffractionpolychromatic microbeamsthree-dimensional differential-aperture x-ray microscopy (DAXM).

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MRS Bulletin , Volume 29 , Issue 3: High-Resolution Three-Dimensional X-Ray Microscopy , March 2004 , pp. 170 - 176
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2004

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