Advances and Applications of Neutron Texture Analysis

Due to the high penetration depth of thermal neutrons for most materials, neutron diffraction is an efficient tool for bulk texture analysis. The main applications are investigations of coarse-grained materials, non-destructive pole figure measurements of identical samples at different states, detection of weak textures, measurement of unprepared samples and texture investigations of multi-phase systems. It should be pointed out that neutron texture analysis is suitable for basic research as well as for applications.