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How to get GB misorientation from APT dataset

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Xinren Chen Researcher Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials

Xinren Chen Administrator level 43 · 2026-10-03 16:39 UTC

Index two grains on the detector map, save each orientation, and calculate the misorientation across the boundary.

Calculating grain-boundary misorientation in DASAPT

  1. Open Detector Map. Set Signal to Hit density, Grid to 256, and Delocalization to 0.50 mm.
  2. Drag the green ion-range band along the voltage curve until the poles of the first grain are clear.
  3. Open Indexing. In Pole Simulator, choose FCC and a lattice constant of 0.404 nm. This example uses LEAP 5000 XS, flight path 100 mm, and ICF 2.
  4. Drag the pole figure until the red spots sit on the dark poles, then click Save Grain 1. In the clip the first grain is φ1 60.4°, Φ 18.7°, φ2 104.4°.
  5. Drag the green band to a second region of the voltage curve and index that grain the same way. Click Save Grain 2. In the clip the second grain is φ1 0°, Φ 48°, φ2 53°.
  6. Click Calc Misorientation. DASAPT reports the minimum misorientation and the rotation axis. Here the angle is 43.7307051° about 0.0763096, −0.94339, −0.32275.

Grain 1 and Grain 2 put a saved orientation back on the pole figure.

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