The physical properties of many samples are dependent on the common alignment of particular crystallographic directions: one of the easiest ways to view this is to use pole figures or inverse pole figures.
Mambo is an advanced pole figure program that provides all the features necessary to examine preferred crystallographic orientations in samples analysed using EBSD. However, not only can Mambo analyse orientation data, but it can also be used to study misorientation data. The rotation axes associated with every boundary in the sample can be plotted in either sample or crystal coordinates, thus helping to identify the nature of any special boundaries.
All displays in Mambo can be contoured using advanced contouring algorithms, providing density and contoured displays as required. Mambo is the perfect tool for viewing EBSD data in pole and inverse pole figures.
Sometimes a pole figure is not enough. The mathematical calculation of an orientation distribution function (ODF) provides, however, a complete description of the texture in your sample.
Salsa can calculate ODFs using several standard methods, and then provides all of the display options necessary for easy interpretation of the results.
Whether you require 3-D plots of the complete Euler space, serial sections or even single density profiles, Salsa provides you with the necessary tools. And, as misorientations and orientations are mathematically equivalent, Salsa also calculates misorientation distribution functions (MODFs).
- Display of EBSD orientation data in Euler space, as orientations (ODF) or misorientations (MODF)
- Distribution function
ODF calculation algorithms
- Series expansion method
- Gaussian kernel estimation
- Scattered data points
- Density colours
- 3-D animation
- Serial sections
- Single section browser
- Density profiles
Creation and display of any ideal orientation, e.g. Goss or 100 fibre
Advanced subset selection of specific orientations
Data and graphic export facility in many formats
Before AZtec can index an EBSP, it needs to know which lattice planes in the crystal structure produce the most intense diffraction bands. Although such "reflector files" for many of the most commonly analysed phases are supplied with AZtec, you may sometimes want to collect EBSD data from a "new" phase.
Twist is an easy-to-use software module that allows you to generate reflector files for new phases, regardless of their symmetry, using atomic position data and an advanced kinematical diffraction theory.
- Simple, step by step procedure to create a new reflector file
- Equivalent atom generation (Wyckoff)
- Search facility for space group symbols
- 3D animation of unit cells
- All 11 Laue and 230 space groups supported
- Reflector intensity calculations based upon kinematical electron diffraction theory