Electron backscatter diffraction ebsd when employed as an additional characterization technique to a scanning electron microscope sem enables individual grain orientations local texture point to point orientation correlations and phase identification and distributions to be determined routinely on the surfaces of bulk polycrystalline materials. Electron backscatter diffraction ebsd when employed as an additional characterization technique to a scanning electron microscope sem enables individual grain orientations local texture point to point orientation correlations and phase identification and distributions to be determined routinely on the surfaces of bulk polycrystalline materials. Electron backscatter diffraction in materials science schwartz adam j kumar mukul adams brent l field david p isbn 9780306464874 kostenloser versand . This advance has come about primarily through the automated indexing of electron backscatter diffraction ebsd patterns the first commercially available system was introduced in 1994 and since then of sales worldwide has been dramatic this has accompanied widening the growth applicability in materials scienceproblems such as microtexture phase identification grain boundary character