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Completed course on "Additive Manufacturing for Business" Key learnings are : Additive Manufacturing Processes: The video introduces seven key additive manufacturing processes defined by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM): Vat photopolymerization (e.g., stereolithography) Material jetting Material extrusion (e.g., fused deposition modeling) Powder bed fusion (e.g., electron beam melting, selective laser sintering) Binder jetting Sheet lamination (e.g., ultrasonic consolidation) Directed energy deposition.

Why reducing polishing steps important in crystallography? 15 -20 hrs of time saved in polishing can help increase your productivity dramatically. Here is an example of a C-Axis image of a post-service Titanium tube that was rotary polished and imaged by the CrystalView laser microscope. CrystalView is the only microscope that can realize crystallographic imaging on rotary polish surfaces, saving days of time and labor. You can now skip the vibratory polish step completely. #CrystallographicImaging #MicrostructureEvaluation #MicrotextureAnalysis #Microstructure #Microtexture #OrientationImaging #FailureAnalysis #3DPrinting #CAxisImaging #RapidAnalysis #QualityContol #additivemanufacturing #Metallurgy #Ti #metallography #EBSD #Titanium #CrystallographicTextures #CrystalViewMicroscope

CrystalView Microscope took this large-area grain segmentation and melt-pool image of LPBF 316L stainless steel. This electro-etched sample was imaged, and processed in under 10 minutes. CrystalView is the only patented laser polarized-light microscope (PLM) and 2024 Innovation Award winner of Microscopy Today which is developed for quantitative large-area for quantitative large-area microstructure characterization with an instant field-of-view exceeding 2.3 sq cm. #CrystalViewMicroscope #MicrostructureEvaluation #MicrotextureAnalysis #SS #CAxisImaging #3DPrinting #FailureAnalysis #RapidAnalysis #OrientationImaging #additivemanufacturing #StainlessSteel

Check out this 1.33 square cm single FOV image of forged Ti64 C-axis orientation. This image was taken and processed by CrystalView microscope in 10 minutes at 5um resolution. CrystalView is the only patented PLM microscope with the largest FOV which uses a laser as a light source to deliver exceptional crystallographic images in minutes. Empirical or computational PLMs have a time-consuming processing time as they construct images by curve-fitting each pixel. CrystalView is the fastest large-area analytical PLM microscope for microstructure and microtexture analysis. EBSD scanned the same sample in 9 hours. #Crystallography #CrystalViewMicroscope #MicrostructureEvaluation #MicrotextureAnalysis #Microstructure #Microtexture #OrientationImaging #3DPrinting #CAxisImaging #RapidAnalysis #QualityContol #metallography #additivemanufacturing #Metallurgy #Titanium #EBSD #Ti64

You can get even more grains by stitching CrystalView images!

Why reduce polishing steps in crystallography? Saving 15-20 hrs in polishing can significantly boost productivity. Take a look at this C-Axis image of a post-service Titanium tube rotary polished and imaged with the CrystalView laser microscope. CrystalView enables crystallographic imaging on rotary polish surfaces, saving time and labor. Skip the vibratory polish step completely. #CrystallographicImaging #MicrostructureEvaluation #MicrotextureAnalysis #Microstructure #Microtexture #OrientationImaging #FailureAnalysis #3DPrinting #CAxisImaging #RapidAnalysis #QualityControl #AdditiveManufacturing #Metallurgy #Ti #Metallography #EBSD #Titanium #CrystallographicTextures #CrystalViewMicroscope

The CrystalView image demonstrates CrystalView LAGS of forged Ti64, encompassing over 10,000 grains for maximum confidence. The segmentation image was generated, consistent with ASTM E2627, in under 30 minutes on a standard laptop computer. CrystalView is the only patented laser polarized-light microscope (PLM) and the winner of the 2024 Microscopy Today Innovation Award. CrystalView provides quantitative large-area microstructure characterization with an instant field-of-view exceeding 2 cm2. CrystalView is the world’s first and only Quantitative Wide-Field PLM, offering the fastest imaging - 15 minutes including processing - and higher contrast than electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) without pixel replacement. #CrystallographicImaging #MicrostructureEvaluation #EBSD #Ti64 #MicrotextureAnalysis #Microstructures #Microtexture #OrientationImaging #FailureAnalysis #3DPrinting #CAxisImaging #RapidAnalysis #QualityControl #additivemanufacturing #Metallurgy #Ti #metallography #Titanium #CrystallographicTextures #CrystalViewMicroscope #Texture

PMMA is ubiquitous in EBL; however, it's known for its poor etch resistance. In the paper, "Etch properties of resists modified by sequential infiltration synthesis," scientists at Argonne National Laboratory introduce sequential infiltration synthesis (#SIS), a process to infiltrate the bulk of the PMMA resist film with alumina via atomic layer deposition (#ALD). This process renders the PMMA resistant to plasma etching and enables the anisotropic transfer of sub-100 nm patterns deeply into silicon without a hard mask: https://lnkd.in/eRDam7vS ✅ Register for MAEBL 2024: https://lnkd.in/epjKQwuy 🔔 Follow us for more EBL content #nano #nanotechnology #nanofabrication #chips #chipsact #ebeam #ebl #electron #workforcedevelopment #semicon #semiconductor #semiconductors #lithography #nanolithography #litho

🔬 Electron #microscopy (#SEM) is a robust technique to investigate surfaces. On polymer samples, prone to charging, coating thickness and material is fundamental to avoid charging and other artifacts. 💡Common devices are limited to 2D images; however, thanks to new advanced topological information might be acquired with correlative AFM-in-SEM.

Another Dimension to Cross-Sectional Metallographic Analysis 🌀 Cross-sectional analysis of layered systems is a cornerstone of metallographic analysis, offering immediate insights into various factors such as delamination, adhesion, diffusion layers, and more. By using fast nanoindentation, it is possible to perform a matrix of indents tightly spaced together, resulting in a map of the mechanical response of the system under analysis with micrometric lateral resolution. This technology enables the measurement, quantification, and visualization of the mechanical properties of each layer and interface at a glance. 🔎 Innovation in Action: Explore an example where cross-sectional nanoindentation mapping helped identify the presence of a distinct, more compact oxide layer in anodized aluminum—a feature that could easily go unnoticed by more traditional metallography analyses. 👉 Discover Cross-Sectional Mechanical Microscopy at: https://lnkd.in/en6rHau6 #Metallography #Nanoindentation #MaterialsScience #MechanicalMicroscopy