Teaching

Interactive animations

Step-by-step interactive tools to visualise key concepts in materials science — from crystal geometry to electron microscopy.

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Tools

Dislocations and plasticity

Edge and screw dislocations, Burgers vector, glide, loops and Orowan's relation.

Formation of Kikuchi bands

Step-by-step from the EBSD geometry to Kossel cones, Kikuchi lines and the complete pattern.

Coincidence Site Lattice

Misorientation, coincidence sites and Σ values for a [001] tilt boundary.

Electron channelling contrast

How the backscattered signal varies with the incidence angle around the Bragg condition.

Dislocation line direction by TEM

Reconstructing the line direction from two micrographs with the plane method.

Stereographic projection

Step-by-step construction of poles, traces and the Wulff net.