Electron channelling contrast imaging of individual dislocations in geological materials using a field emission scanning electron microscope equipped with an EBSD system

@article{Miyajima2017ElectronCC,
  title={Electron channelling contrast imaging of individual dislocations in geological materials using a field emission scanning electron microscope equipped with an EBSD system},
  author={Nobuyoshi Miyajima and Yang Li and Sumith Abeykoon and Florian Heidelbach},
  journal={European Journal of Mineralogy},
  year={2017},
  volume={30},
  pages={5-15}
}
Dislocation-related defects in minerals govern globally important rheological processes such as mantle convection in the deep Earth where dislocation creep is a common deformation mechanism of the constituent minerals. Understanding such processes requires the direct observation of individual dislocations in minerals and across their interfaces. Using electron channelling contrast imaging (ECCI) in a conventional field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM), we successfully observed… 
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