Manjunath – NSF Grant

B.S. Manjunath | "Development of an Ultrafast, Ultrasensitive, High-resolution Direct Electron Detector for Next-Generation Electron Back-scattered Diffraction of Metallic and Beam-sensitive Materials"

Excerpt from the COE/CLS Convergence magazine (F/W21) article "New Grants"

Daniel Gionola (MAT), Michael Chabinyc (MAT), Tresa Pollock (MAT), B. S. Manjunath (ECE), Raphaële Clément (MAT)

Electron back-scattered diffraction (EBSD) is a powerful, widely used characterization technique for mapping and analyzing phases in materials. The advent of direct electron detection, which circumvents inefficient conversion between electrons and photons, has revolutionized the field of transmission electron microscopy, but its use in scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) is in its infancy. In this project, researchers will develop an ultrafast, ultrasensitive direct electron EBSD instrument for the widely accessible SEM platform, providing a rich opportunity for materials research currently hindered by electron beam damage and temporal limitations of detectors. The development project improves on the state-of-the-art EBSD acquisition speed and enhances sensitivity through a new sensor design, unlocking the most vexing challenges in the rapid 3D characterization of additively manufactured materials and emerging dose-sensitive materials.

COE/CLS Convergence magazine (F/W21) - "New Grants" (pg. 36)