Grain boundaries in polycrystalline materials migrate to reduce the total excess energy. It
has recently been found that the factors governing migration rates of boundaries in bicrystals …

Grain boundary velocity has been believed to be correlated to curvature, and this is an
important relationship for modeling how polycrystalline materials coarsen during annealing …

High-energy diffraction microscopy (HEDM) is an implementation of three-dimensional X-ray
diffraction microscopy. HEDM yields maps of internal crystal orientation fields, strain states …

Most metals, ceramics, semiconductors and rocks are composed of small crystals known as
grains. When annealed, this polycrystalline structure coarsens, thus allowing the properties …

High energy x-ray diffraction microscopy was used to image the microstructure of α-Fe
before and after a 600° C anneal. These data were used to determine the areas, curvatures …

The ability to watch the three-dimensional (3D) evolution of structural materials is a
breakthrough in non-destructive characterization. In particular, X-ray tomographic imaging …

The orientations, locations, and sizes of approximately 2500 grains in a Ni polycrystal were
measured at six points in time during an interrupted annealing experiment by synchrotron x …

The three-dimensional microstructure of Ni, observed after five annealing intervals, was
compared to simulations of grain growth using the threshold dynamics method with the …

Bragg coherent diffraction imaging has the potential to provide significant insight into the
structure-properties relationship for crystalline materials by imaging, with nanoscale …

Nondestructive X-ray diffraction contrast tomography imaging was used to characterize the
microstructure evolution in a polycrystalline bulk strontium titanate specimen. Simultaneous …