Combining polarized light microscopy with machine learning to map crystallographic textures on cubic metals

• Main Authors: Wang, Xiaogang, Yang, Sibo, Seita, Matteo
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Engineering::Materials; Polarized Light Microscopy; Crystallographic Texture Mapping
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/170504
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this work, we demonstrate the possibility of gathering crystal orientation information from cubic—optically isotropic—materials using polarized light microscopy. Our method relies on a simple and inexpensive optical technique called polarized reflectance microscopy (PRM). During PRM, we capture a...