Electron backscattering diffraction as a complementary analytical approach to the microstructural characterization of ancient materials by electron microscopy

Since the development of electron backscattering diffraction (EBSD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has become a powerful tool for characterizing the local crystallography of bulk materials at the nanoscale. Although EBSD is now a well-established characterization method in materials science, it has rarely been used in art and archaeology, and nearly exclusively in metallic materials. However, EBSD could also be exploited to characterize...