EBSD Acquisition Software

HKL CHANNEL5 uses a modular approach to its various functions and software licenses. All software modules interact seamlessly with one another and form a powerful and expressive suite with which to perform microstructural characterization. HKL CHANNEL5 is aimed at materials scientists in academic and industrial research and industrial process control. Geologists will also find it supports their research needs with low symmetry indexing, pseudosymmetry correction and large area mapping with stage control on most SEM’s.

Successful and accurate data acquisition is fundamental to any EBSD analysis. Any acquisition software must be designed not only for accuracy and reliability, but also for versatility.

Therefore the HKL CHANNEL5 Flamenco allows image collection, versatile EBSD analysis (works with both NordlysS and NordlysF+) and phase identification all within a single program.

Phase Identification

The use of EBSD in combination with a chemical analysis technique (such as EDS) to identify a phase is a relatively new application of the technique. Flamenco offers the option of a fully integrated Phase Identification system with a choice of crystallographic databases.
The information for every phase in the databases has, where possible, been generated from atomic position data using full structure factor calculations. This ensures that the phase identification is both accurate and fast. Integration with several commercially available EDS systems is possible, although the system also works well as a stand-alone unit.

Key Specifications:

Imaging system

Flamenco offers a fully integrated imaging system that takes full control of the SEM beam scanning. Any type of SEM image can be incorporated, and the captured images allow easy definition of EBSD sampling locations (e.g. individual points or automated scans).

Key Specifications

• Fully integrated into Flamenco
• Many SEM image types supported (SE, BSE, etc..)
• Line and pixel averaging
• Complete tilt correction, scan speed and image resolution control
• Easy definition of EBSD analysis location(s) using images

The new ‘HKL Fast Acquisition’ software has been engineered and designed by Oxford Instruments HKL A/S, with major advantages in mind. 

Firstly, the HKL Fast Acquisition software has a Client/Server architecture, where the Client is the ‘HKL Fast Acquisition Software’ and the server is the HKL Corona server.  This architecture enhances the communication capability of the EBSD engine with multiple clients.

Secondly, the HKL Fast Acquisition software utilizes a new multi-threaded data acquisition algorithm, which can acquire and index backscattered electron diffraction patterns at a significantly faster rate than the older software versions.

Thirdly, it has also been designed with user friendliness in mind for ease of use.  The layout exposes the most important windows and their required respective options in order to do a successful EBSD analysis.  The order of the windows has been designed to guide the user through the steps of the EBSD analysis.

Features

Combining simplicity of operation with functional richness, INCACrystal is the EBSD system for both the beginner and the expert.

• Unique INCACrystal Navigator user interface.
• Excellent diffraction pattern quality using HKL Nordlys camera.
• Crystal orientations can be measured in just a few easy steps.
• Fast and accurate crystal orientation mapping.
• One screen gives all the tools required to review crystal orientation maps.
• Extensive tools for reviewing grains and grain boundaries.
• All the techniques required to explore the wealth of information provided by EBSD including intra-grain misorientation measurements and Schmid and Taylor factor mapping.
• Textures can be extracted with a single button click with the unique AutoQ texture feature.
• Discrimination of crystallographically different phases.
• Extensive data retrieval, reporting and automation features.