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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2002
Cheng Tsien Chou, Oxford, GB;
Keith Graham Dicks, Buckinghamshire, GB;
Pierre Rolland, Les Ulis, FR;
Oxford Instruments Analytical Limited, Oxford, GB;
Abstract
A method of analyzing crystalline texture from data defining the orientation of crystals in a sample of polycrystalline material including, for each crystal, determining the orientation of a first direction in the sample, with respect to a common reference frame fixed to the crystal structure of each crystal. A number of crystals sharing a similar orientation of the first direction with respect to the reference frame is selected and for each, the orientation is determined of a second direction in the sample with respect to the reference frame. A number of crystals sharing a similar orientation of the second direction with respect to the reference frame is selected and a crystal texture corresponding to the orientation of the selected crystals with respect to the first and second directions within the sample is determined and/or represented.