New paper: "Characterizing Dislocation Substructures in Creep-Deformed Olivine Using Electron Channeling Contrast Imaging" by M. Haroon Qaiser, Jessica White, David Wallis and @bmatb.expmicromech.com in JGR Solid Earth doi.org/10.1029/2026... 🧪🔬⚒️

🚨New paper: "The significance of an unknown Pd-Ni-Bi telluride mineral from the Gochager Lake Ni-Cu deposit (Saskatchewan, Canada)" by P. Alexandre and T.B. Britton doi.org/10.1180/mgm....

🚨New Preprint: Brendan V. Dyck, Xavier Chang, and @bmatb.expmicromech.com "Supersaturation dynamics govern crystallographic orientation inheritance during mineral nucleation: insights from aqueous salt systems" essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....

🚨🔬 New paper: "Dynamical simulation of on-axis transmission Kikuchi and spot diffraction patterns, based on accurate diffraction geometry calibration" @tbizh95.bsky.social, Raynald Gauvin, Aimo Winkelmann, @bmatb.expmicromech.com doi.org/10.1111/jmi....

🚨New #Preprint - some really beautiful electron microscopy of olivine (an important mineral): M. Haroon Qaiser, Jessica White, David Wallis, and T. Ben Britton "Characterizing Dislocation Substructures in Creep-Deformed Olivine Using Electron Channeling Contrast Imaging" arxiv.org/abs/2605.09398

This paper has been accepted for publication in Ultramicroscopy T Ben Britton, M. Haroon Qaiser, Ruth M. Birch "Channeling-in channeling-out revisited: selected area electron channeling and electron backscatter diffraction" Ultramicroscopy (2026) arxiv.org/abs/2603.27082 and doi.org/10.1016/j.ul...

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🚨 New #PrePrint: T Ben Britton, M. Haroon Qaiser, Ruth M. Birch "Channeling-in channeling-out revisited: selected area electron channeling and electron backscatter diffraction" arxiv.org/abs/2603.27082

🚨New Preprint: "Polar Topologies in a Ferroelastic Metal Membrane" by R Haria, N Schnitzer, TB Britton, Y Li, TJP Irons, S Linssen Pitsaros, E Banyas, G Topore, A Hoyes, M Palos, S M Griffin, K Inzani, MS Conroy arxiv.org/abs/2604.28120

🚨 new #PrePrint: "Correlative Microstructural Analysis of a Weathered Nantan Meteorite Fragment" by Graeme J. Francolini, Brendan V. Dyck, Paul Mack, @bmatb.expmicromech.com arxiv.org/abs/2604.14187

🚨 New #PrePrint: T Ben Britton, M. Haroon Qaiser, Ruth M. Birch "Channeling-in channeling-out revisited: selected area electron channeling and electron backscatter diffraction" arxiv.org/abs/2603.27082

🚨 New #ArXiv PrePrint: @tbizh95.bsky.social, Raynald Gauvin, Aimo Winkelmann, @bmatb.expmicromech.com "Dynamical Simulation of On-axis Transmission Kikuchi and Spot Diffraction Patterns, Based on Accurate Diffraction Geometry Calibration" #ElectronMicroscopy #Microscopy arxiv.org/abs/2603.22628

🚨New preprint: "The role of austenite twins on variant selection during decomposition in low carbon steels" by @drruthb.bsky.social, @bmatb.expmicromech.com and Warren Poole from UBC Materials Engineering. 📝: arxiv.org/abs/2603.07378 📽️: www.youtube.com/shorts/IC-Pa... #Microscopy

Isolated PAG Grain - and pattern quality - steel

Collected and created by Dr Ruth Birch @ UBC (advised by Dr Ben Britton and Dr Warren Poole)

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🚨 New Paper (open access) - published in the Journal of Applied Crystallography: "AstroECP: towards more practical Electron Channeling Contrast Imaging" by M. H. Qaiser, L. Berners, R. Scales, T. Zhang, M. Heller, J. Dluhos, S. Korte-Kerzel, and B. Britton journals.iucr.org/j/issues/202...

AstroECP: towards more practical electron channeling contrast imaging

We explore and address many of the major challenges associated with using electron channeling contrast imaging in a scanning electron microscope, with the goal of more easily revealing and characteriz...

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🔬paper: W Peng, A Singh, MH Qaiser, P Fahler-Muenzer, F Watson, L Si, Y Xie, KE Sopińska, DA Chaney, AM Sanchez, @bmatb.expmicromech.com , @richbean0.bsky.social , M Hadjimichael, M Alexe "Electron channeling contrast imaging of ferroelastic domains" Advanced Materials (2026) doi.org/10.1002/adma...

New paper: "Large volume ‘chunk’ lift out for 3D tomographic analysis using analytical plasma focussed ion beam – scanning electron microscopy" by Ruth Birch, Shuheng Li, Sharang Sharang, Warren J. Poole, and @bmatb.expmicromech.com doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...

We have two funded PhD positions in the group (based at UBC, Vancouver, Canada) - for a May or September 2026 start date - in advancing electron microscopy & materials for clean energy + transportation - to find out more: www.expmicromech.com/people/oppor...

Members of the team feature in this piece by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, on advanced manufacturing and additive manufacturing: www.innovation.ca/projects-res...

Additive manufacturing: Faster, cleaner, cheaper | Canada Foundation for Innovation

Layer by layer, new technology is transforming Canada’s automotive, aerospace and clean energy sectors

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New paper: "Characterization of WSe2 Films Using Reflection Kikuchi Diffraction in the Scanning Electron Microscope and Multivariate Statistical Analyses" @tbizh95.bsky.social , J Holzer, T Vystavěl, M Kolíbal, E Paiva de Araujo, C Stephens, and @bmatb.expmicromech.com pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Characterization of WSe2 Films Using Reflection Kikuchi Diffraction in the Scanning Electron Microscope and Multivariate Statistical Analyses

The study of thin films and two-dimensional (2D) materials, including transition metal dichalcogenides such as WSe2 offers opportunities to leverage their properties in advanced sensors, quantum techn...

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Members of the group attended, helped co-organize and some even won prizes at the Characterization @ UBC Fall School Find out more about it here: characterization.ubc.ca/news/october...

🚨New Preprint: "Angular Resolution Enhancement of Electron Backscatter Diffraction Patterns" by @bmatb.expmicromech.com and @tbizh95.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2509.23039

🚨Preprint: "Exploring the potential for scanning electron microscopy/focused ion beam - based diffraction for screening cryo-transmission electron microscopy samples" EV Woods, C Wigge, Y Zhao, R de Kloe, TM Schwarz, @bmatb.expmicromech.com, S Zaefferer, @batgo.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025...

On behalf of @expmicromech.com - the latest version of AstroEBSD is released, adding the newly developed AstroECP tool to our toolbox (see our preprint announcement). Also we (finally) tidied up the readme files, added descriptions of new features over the years, and created a change log.

🚨📜: "Practical Considerations for Crystallographic and Microstructure Mapping With Direct Electron Detector-Based Electron Backscatter Diffraction" by @tbizh95.bsky.social, Ruth Birch, Graeme Francolini, Ebru Karakurt, @bmatb.expmicromech.com in Microscopy and Microanalysis doi.org/10.1093/mam/...

🚨 New Preprint: "AstroECP: towards more practical Electron Channeling Contrast Imaging" M. Haroon Qaiser, Lukas Berners, Robin J. Scales, @tbizh95.bsky.social, Martin Heller, Jiri Dluhos, Sandra Korte-Kerzel, @bmatb.expmicromech.com arxiv.org/abs/2507.00354

🚨New #PrePrint - "Characterization of WSe2 films using reflection Kikuchi diffraction in the scanning electron microscope and multivariate statistical analyses" @tbizh95.bsky.social, J Holzer, T Vystavěl, M Kolíbal, E Paiva de Araújo, C. Stephens & @bmatb.expmicromech.com arxiv.org/abs/2506.22575

🚨 new preprint - arxiv.org/abs/2506.17534 🔬 "Large volume 'chunk' lift out for 3D tomographic analysis using analytical plasma focussed ion beam -- scanning electron microscopy" by @drruthb.bsky.social Shuheng Li, Sharang Sharang, Warren J. Poole, @bmatb.expmicromech.com

New paper: Long, D., Dessolier, T., @bmatb.expmicromech.com Pedrazzini, S., and Dunne, F. P.E., "Zirconium Δ-Hydrides: Strain Localisation, Ratcheting, and Fatigue Crack Propagation" published in the International Journal of Plasticity (2025) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨New Preprint - "Practical considerations for crystallographic and microstructure mapping with direct electron detector-based electron backscatter diffraction" by @tbizh95.bsky.social, Ruth Birch, Graeme Francolini, Ebru Karakurt Uluscu, @bmatb.expmicromech.com arxiv.org/abs/2504.11624

Exciting times - a brand new Thermo Fisher Scientific Apreo Chemisem scanning electron microscope, equipped with EDX and EBSD, is being commissioned for us at UBC - with support from Systems for Research. This instrument will enable us to develop highly automated materials characterization methods.

🚨New published paper: "Comparison of Kikuchi Diffraction Geometries in Scanning Electron Microscope" by @tbizh95.bsky.social, Lukas Berners, Jakub Holzer, @bmatb.expmicromech.com - where we use and compare direct electro detector configurations for electron crystallography doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

🚨New paper - "Microstructural characterization to reveal evidence of shock deformation in a Campo del Cielo meteorite fragment" by Graeme Francolini and @bmatb.expmicromech.com - accepted for publication in Materials Characterization doi.org/10.1016/j.ma... 🧪🔬🌠