Publications


Further links to publications can be found via: google scholar; Scopus; ORCID.

The Spiral and ArXiv links below often provide free (author's versions) of each manuscript.

Pre-prints (under review)


Ning Fang, Yang Liu, Finn Giuliani, Ben Britton "Characterisation of the strain rate sensitivity of basal, prismatic and pyramidal slip in Zircaloy-4 using micropillar compression" https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09600 

Tianhong Gu, Finn Giuliani and Ben Britton "Accessing slip activity in high purity tin with electron backscatter diffraction and measurement of slip strength" https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02681 

Tianhong Gu, Chris Gourlay and Ben Britton "The role of lengthscale in the creep of Sn-3Ag-0.5 Cu solder microstructures" https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08266 

Vivian Tong, Euan Wielewski, and Ben Britton "Understanding plasticity in zirconium using in-situ measurement of lattice rotations" https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04187 

Pre-prints (in Limbo)

These preprints are usually orphaned, either because we have moved on, something wasn't quite right, or the review process was too annoying to deal with.

Vivian Tong, Euan Wielewski, Ben Britton "Characterisation of slip and twinning in high rate deformed zirconium with electron backscatter diffraction" https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00236

J L R Hickey, S Rouland & T B Britton - Heterogeneous local plastic deformation revealed using in-situ tensile testing and high angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction  https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02017

R M Birch and T B Britton - "Improved understanding of the growth of blocky alpha in welded Zircaloy-4" https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17093

In Press

112. Ning Fang, Ziyao Zhou, Ben Britton "The performance of different etchants on the microstructure and carbides of Ni600 & Ni625" accepted for publication in Metals

111.Tianbi Zhang and Ben Britton "A simple, static and stage mounted direct electron detector based electron backscatter diffraction system" accepted for publication in Micron & preprint available https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.14888  

110. Tianbi Zhang and Ben Britton "Multi-exposure diffraction pattern fusion applied to enable wider-angle transmission Kikuchi diffraction with direct electron detectors" accepted for publication in Ultramicroscopy https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2023.113902  & preprint available https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14167 

2023

109. Sarah Hiew Sze Kei, Willem Maarten van Haaften, Ben Britton, Stella Pedrazzini “Review of Factors Contributing to Sulfide Stress Cracking in TMCP Seamless Pipeline Steels” – invited review in Advanced Engineering Materials (2023) https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202300406 

108. S. Pedrazzini, M. E. Pek, A. K. Ackerman, H. Ali, H. Ghadbeigi, K. Mumtaz, T. Dessolier, T.B. Britton, P. Bajaj, E. Jägle, B. Gault, A. J. London, E. Galindo-Nava "Influence of powder-bed temperature on the microstructure and mechanical properties of Ti-6Al-4V produced by selective laser melting" Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A (2023) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11661-023-07070-4 and open access ArXiv preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08288 

107. Ruth M. Birch, James O. Douglas, T. Ben Britton "Characterization of local deformation around hydrides in Zircaloy-4 using conventional and high angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction" https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08311 and accepted for publication in Materials Characterization

106. Baptiste Gault, Heena Khanchandani, T.S. Prithiv, Stoichko Antonov, T. Ben Britton "Transmission Kikuchi diffraction mapping induces structural damage in atom probe specimens" https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06362 and https://doi.org/10.1093/micmic/ozad029 

2022

106. Yilun Xu, Tianhong Gu, Jingwei Xian, Finn Giuliani, T Ben Britton, Christopher M Gourlay, Fionn PE Dunne "Multi-scale plasticity homogenization of Sn–3Ag-0.5Cu: From β-Sn micropillars to polycrystals with intermetallics" https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2022.143876 

105. Ning Fang, Ruth Birch, and T. Ben Britton "Optimizing broad ion beam polishing of zircaloy-4 for electron backscatter diffraction analysis" https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02501 and published in Micron https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micron.2022.103268 

104. Chen Huang, Pinelopi Kyvelou, Ruizhi Zhang, T. Ben Britton and Leroy Gardner "Mechanical Testing and Microstructural Analysis of Wire Arc Additively Manufactured Steels" Materials and Design (2022) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4004790 

103. Tea-Sung Jun, Ayan Bhowmik, Xavier Maeder,  Giorgio Sernicol, Tommaso Giovannini, Igor Dolbnya, Johann Michler, Finn Giuliani, Ben Britton "In-situ diffraction based observations of slip near phase boundaries in titanium through micropillar compression" Materials Characterisation (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2021.111695 

102. Ruth Birch, Thomas Benjamin Britton "Effective structural unit analysis in hexagonal close packed alloys - reconstruction of prior beta microstructures & crystal orientation post processing analysis" Journal of Applied Crystallography (2022) https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10648 & https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576721011584

2021

101. Yang Liu, Suki Adande, T. Ben Britton, Fionn P.E. Dunne "Cold dwell fatigue analyses integrating crystal-level strain rate sensitivity and microstructural heterogeneity" accepted for publication in International Journal of Fatigue https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2021.106398 

100. Ben Britton, Jennifer Carter, Matthew Korey, Liz Roccoforte "Material Goals Towards Equity Along the STEM and LGBTQIA+ Spectra" JOM (2021) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-021-04829-1 

99. Ruizhi Zhang, Craig Buchanan, Ville-Pekka Matilainen, Dafni Daskalaki-Mountanou, T. Ben Britton, Heidi Piili, Antti Salminen, Leroy Gardner "Mechanical properties and microstructure of additively manufactured stainless steel with laser welded joints" Journal of Materials and Design https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2021.109921  

98. Thibaut Dessolier, Thomas McAuliffe, Wouter J. Hamer, Chrétien G.M. Hermse, T. Ben Britton "Effect of high temperature service on the complex through-wall microstructure of centrifugally cast HP40 reformer tube" https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07429  and data https://zenodo.org/record/4001600#.X0d7P8hKiMo, Materials Characterisation https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2021.111070 

97. Max Emmanuel, Oriol Gavalda-Diaz, Giorgio Sernicola, Rachid M'saoubi, Tomas Persson, Susanne Norgren, Katharina Marquardt, T. Ben Britton, Finn Giuliani "Fracture Energy Measurement of Prismatic Plane and Σ2 Boundary in Cemented Carbide" https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-021-04638-6   

96. Zhuocheng Xu, Ben Britton and Yi Guo "Casting voids in nickel superalloy and the mechanical behaviour under room temperature tensile deformation" https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04042  and Materials Science and Engineering A (2012) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2021.140800  

95. Chris Bilsland, Andrew Barrow, T. Ben Britton "Correlative statistical microstructural assessment of precipitates and their distribution, with simultaneous electron backscatter diffraction and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy"https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03279 and Materials Characterisation (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2021.111071 

94. Yi Guo, Cui Zong, Ben Britton "The development of local plasticity around void during tensile deformation" https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11890 and Materials Science and Engineering A (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2021.141227 

93. Philip Ball, T. Benjamin Britton, Erin Hengel, Philip Moriarty, Rachel A. Oliver, Gina Rippon, Angela Saini, and Jessica Wade "Gender issues in fundamental physics:  Strumia's bibliometric analysis fails to account for key confounders and confuses correlation with causation" https://psyarxiv.com/2hfny/ and Quantitative Science Studies (2021) https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00117 

92. Isabelle Mouton, Yanhong Chang, Poulami Chakraborty, Siyang Wang, Leigh T. Stephenson, T. Ben Britton, Baptiste Gault "Hydride growth mechanism in Zircaloy-4: investigation of the partitioning of alloying elements" https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08073 and accepted for publication in Materialia https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2021.101006 

91. Thomas P McAuliffe, Ioannis Bantounas, Lucy R Reynolds, Alex Foden, Mark Hardy, T Ben Britton, David Dye "Quantitative precipitate classification and grain boundary property control in Co/Ni-base superalloys" https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00948 and Metallurgical and Materials Transactions (2021) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11661-021-06156-1 

90. Vivian Tong, Thomas Benjamin Britton "TrueEBSD: correcting spatial distortions in electron backscatter diffraction maps" https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00347 and Ultramicroscopy (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2020.113130 

2020

89. Yilun Xu, Tianhong Gu, Jingwei Xian, Finn Giuliani, T. Ben Britton, Christopher M. Gourlay, and Fionn P.E. Dunne "Intermetallic size and morphology effects on creep rate of Sn-3Ag-0.5Cu solder" accepted for publication in International Journal of Plasticity https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijplas.2020.102904

88. Thomas P McAuliffe, David Dye, T Ben Britton "Spherical-angular dark field imaging and sensitive microstructural phase clustering with unsupervised machine learning" https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10581 and accepted for publication in Ultramicroscopy 

87. Siyang Wang, Finn Giuliani, T. Ben Britton "Slip-hydride interactions in Zircaloy-4: Multiscale mechanical testing and characterisation" https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13610  and accepted for publication in Acta Materialia https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.09.038

86. Tianhong Gu, Vivian Tong, Christopher M Gourlay, T Ben Britton "In-situ study of creep in Sn-3Ag-0.5Cu solder"  Acta Materialia (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.06.013 and preprint http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05904 

85.  Pinelopi Kyvelou, Harry Slack, Dafni Daskalaki Mountanou, Ahmer M Wadee, T. Ben Britton, Craig Buchanan and Leroy Gardner "Mechanical and microstructural testing of wire and arc additively manufactured sheet material" Materials & Design (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2020.108675

84. Catriona McGilvery, Jun Jiang, Nick Routhwaite, Rod Williams, Finn Giuliani, Benjamin Britton "Characterisation of Carbonaceous Deposits on Diesl Injector Nozzles" Fuel (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2020.117629 

83. Ayan Bhowmik, Junyi Lee, Ming Koh, Tea-Sung Jun, Giorgio Sernicola, Ben Britton, Catherine Rae, Daniel Balint, Finn Giuliani "Investigating spatio-temporal deformation in single crystal Ni-based superalloys using in-situ diffraction experiments and modelling" Materialia https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2020.100635 (2020)

82. T.P. McAuliffe, A. Foden, C. Bilsland, D. Daskalaki-Mountanou, D. Dye, T.B. Britton "Advancing characterisation with statistics from correlative electron diffraction and X-ray spectroscopy, in the scanning electron microscope" https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04084  and Ultramicroscopy (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2020.112944

81. Tianhong Gu, Christopher M. Gourlay, T. Ben Britton "In-situ electron backscatter diffraction of thermal cycling in a single grain Cu/Sn-3Ag-0.5Cu/Cu solder joint" Scripta Materialia (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2019.09.003 and preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00401

2019

80. Yi Guo, David Collins, Edmund Tarleton, Felix Hofmann, Angus Wilkinson, Ben Britton "Dislocation density distribution at slip band-grain boundary intersections" Acta Materialia (2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2019.10.031  and https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00674

79. Ralf Hielscher, Felix Bartel, and T Ben Britton "Gazing at crystal balls -  Electron backscatter diffraction indexing and cross correlation on a sphere" Ultramicroscopy (2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2019.112836  and preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03211

78. Alexander Foden, David Collins, Angus Wilkinson, Thomas Benjamin Britton "Indexing Electron Backscatter Diffraction Patterns with a Refined Template Matching Approach" Ultramicroscopy (2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2019.112845 and PrePrint https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11313

77. Siyang Wang, Szilvia Kalácska, Xavier Maeder, Johann Michler, Finn Giuliani, T. Ben Britton "The effect of δ-hydride on the micromechanical deformation of Zircaloy-4 studied by in situ high angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction" Scripta Materialia (2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2019.08.006 and  https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11558 

76. David Wallis Lars N. Hansen T. Ben Britton Angus J. Wilkinson "High-angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction as a new tool for mapping lattice distortion in geological minerals" https://eartharxiv.org/mbwf6/ and https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.08393,  and https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB017867 Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth (2019)

75. Daniel S. Gianola, T. Ben Britton, Stefan Zaefferer "New techniques for imaging and identifying defects in electron microscopy" https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06909 and https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs.2019.125 

74. Isabelle Mouton, Andrew J. Breen, Siyang Wang, Yanhong Chang, Agnieszka Szczepaniak, Paraskevas Kontis, Leigh T. Stephenson, Dierk Raabe, M. Herbig, T. Ben Britton, Baptiste Gault "Quantification challenges for atom probe tomography of hydrogen and deuterium in Zircaloy-4"  Microscopy and Microanalysis (2019) https://doi.org/10.1017/S143192761801615X and https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03556 

73. Siyang Wang, Finn Giuliani, and Ben Britton "Microstructure and formation mechanisms of δ-hydrides in variable grain size Zircaloy-4 studied by electron backscatter diffraction" Acta Materialia (2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2019.02.042 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12442 

72. Aimo Winkelmann, T. Ben Britton, and Gert Nolze "Constraints on the Effective Electron Energy Spectrum in Backscatter Kikuchi Diffraction" Physical Review B (2019) https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.09525 and https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.064115 

71. Tea-Sung Jun, Xavier Maeder, Ayan Bhowmik, Gaylord Guillonneau, Johann Michler, Finn Giuliani, T. Ben Britton "The role of β-titanium ligaments in the deformation of dual phase titanium alloys" Materials Science and Engineering A (2019) https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07250 and https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2019.01.032 

70. Siyang Wang, Finn Giuliani, and Ben Britton "Variable temperature micropillar compression to reveal <a> basal slip properties of Zircaloy-4"  Scripta Materialia (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2018.12.014 

69. Vivian S Tong, Alexander J Knowles, David Dye, T Ben Britton "Rapid Electron Backscatter Diffraction Mapping: Painting by Numbers" https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07283 and Materials Characterization (2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2018.11.014

68. Ruth Birch, Siyang Wang, Vivian Tong, Thomas Benjamin Britton "Short Communication: The effect of cooling rate and grain size on hydride formation in Zircaloy-4" https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11927 and Journal of Nuclear Materials https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2018.11.011 

67. Tianhong Gu, Chis Gourlay, and T. Ben Britton "Evaluating Creep Deformation in Controlled Microstructures 7 of Sn-3Ag-0.5Cu Solder" Journal of Electronic Materials (2019) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-018-6744-1 

2018

66. Thomas Benjamin Britton, Vivian Tong, Jim Hikey, Alex Foden, and Angus Wilkinson "AstroEBSD: exploring new space in pattern indexing with methods launched from an astronomical approach" Journal of Applied Crystallography (2018) https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576718010373 (& preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02602 )

65. Bo Lan, T. Ben Britton, Tea-Sung Jun, Weimin Gan, Michael Hofmann, Fionn P E Dunne, and Michael J.S. Lowe "Direct volumetric measurement of crystallographic texture using acoustic waves" (2018) Acta Materialia https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2018.08.037 

64.  Qinmeng Luan, Thomas Benjamin Britton and Tea-Sun Jun "Strain rate sensitivity in commercial pure titanium: the competition between slip and deformation twinning" Materials Science and Engineering A (2018) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2018.08.010 

63. Mathew Niania,  Renaud Podor,  T. Ben Britton,  Cheng Li,  Samuel J. Cooper,  Nikolai Svetkov,  Stephen Skinner  and  John Kilner " In situ study of strontium segregation in La0.6Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8O3−δ in ambient atmospheres using high-temperature environmental scanning electron microscopy" Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2018) http://doi.org/10.1039/C8TA01341A

62. A.J. Breen, I. Mouton, W. Lu, S. Wang, A. Szczepaniak, P. Kontis, L.T. Stephenson, Y. Chang, A.K. da Silva, C. Liebscher, D. Raabe, T.B. Britton, M. Herbig, B. Gault "Atomic scale analysis of grain boundary deuteride growth front in Zircaloy-4" Scripta Materialia (2018)  https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10286 and https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2018.06.044

61. Britton, T.B., Goran, D., Tong, V. "Space rocks and optimising scanning electron channelling contrast" Materials Characterization (2018) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2018.06.001 (open access preprint also available https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08754)

60. Bhowmik, A., Lee, J., Britton, T.B., Liu, W., Jun, T.S., Sernicola, G., Karimpour, M., Balint, D., and Giuliani, F. "Deformation behaviour of [001] oriented MgO using combined in-situ nano-indentation and micro-Laue diffraction" Acta Materialia (2018) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2017.12.002

2017

59. Wallis, D., Hansen, L., Britton, T.B. and Wilkinson, A.J. "Dislocation interactions in olivine revealed by HR-EBSD" Journal of Geophysical Research : Solid Earth (2017) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014513

58. Jing, Y., Su, D., Yue, X., Britton, T.B. and Jiang, J. "The development of high strength brazing technique for Ti-6Al-4V using TiZrCuNi amorphous filler" Materials Characterisation (2017) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2017.07.039

57. Sernicola, G., Giovannini, T., Patel, P., Kermode, J.R., Balint, D.S., Britton, T.B., and Giuliani, F. "In situ stable crack growth at the micron scale" Nature Communications (2017) https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00139-w

56. Knowles, A.J., Jun, T.S., Bhowmik, A., Jones, N.G., Britton, T.B., Giuliani, F., Stone, H.J., and Dye, D. "A new beta titanium alloy system reinforced with superlattice intermetallic precipitates" Scripta Mat (2017) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2017.06.038

55. Britton, T.B. Comment on "An Experimental Study on Evolution of Grain-Scale Stress/Strain and Geometrical Necessary Dislocations in Advanced TA15 Titanium Alloy during Uniaxial Tension Deformation" Advanced Engineering Materials (2017) https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adem.201700051

54. Tong, V., Joseph, S., Ackerman, A.K., Dye, D., and Britton, T.B. "Using transmission Kikuchi diffraction to characterise α variants in an α + β titanium alloy" Journal of Microscopy (2017) https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jmi.12569

53. Ashton, P.J., Jun, T.S., Zhang, Z., Britton, T.B., Harte, A.M., Leen, S.B., and Dunne, F.P.E. "The effect of the beta phase on the micromechanical response of dual-phase titanium alloys" International Journal of Fatigue (2017) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2017.03.020

52. Tong, V. and Britton, T.B. "Formation of very large ‘blocky alpha’ grains in Zircaloy-4" Acta Materialia (2017) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359645417301817

51. Jiang, J., Dunne, F.P.E., and Britton, T.B. "Toward predictive understanding of fatigue crack nucleation in Ni-based superalloys" JOM (2017) http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11837-017-2307-9

50. Guo, Y., Abdolvand, H., Britton, T.B., and Wilkinson, A.J. Growth of {11-21} twins in titanium: A combined experimental and modelling investigation of the local state of deformation Acta Materialia (2017) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2016.12.066

49. Guan, Y., Chen, B., Zou, J., Britton, B., Jiang, J. and Dunne, F.P.E. Crystal Plasticity Modelling and HR-DIC measurements of Slip Activation and Strain Localisation in Single and Oligo-crystal Ni Alloys under Fatigue International Journal of Plasticity (2017) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijplas.2016.10.001

2016

48. Zhang, Z., Jun, T-S., Britton, T.B., and Dunne, F.P.E. Intrinsic anisotropy of strain rate sensitivity in single crystal alpha titanium Acta Materilia (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2016.07.044 #OpenAccess

47. Jiang, J., Yang, J., Zhang, T., Wang, Y., Dunne, F.P.E., and Britton, T.B. Microstructurally sensitive crack nucleation around inclusions in powder metallurgy nickel based superalloys Acta Materialia (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2016.07.023 #OpenAccess

46. Zhang, Z., Jun, T-S., Britton, T.B., and Dunne, F.P.E. Determination of Ti-6242 alpha and beta slip properties using micro-pillar test and computational crystal plasticity Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2016.06.007

45. Wallis, D., Hansen, L.N., Britton, T.B. and Wilkinson, A.J. Geometrically necessary dislocation densities in olivine obtained using high-angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction Ultramicroscopy (2016) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2016.06.002

44. Zhang, T., Jiang, J., Britton, T. B., Shollock, B., Dunne, F.P.E. Crack nucleation using combined crystal plasticity modelling, HR-DIC and HR-EBSD in a superalloy containing non-metallic inclusions under fatigue Proceedings of the Royal Society A (2016) https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2015.0792 and https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/32247

43. T.B. Britton, J. Jiang, Y. Guo, A. Vilalta-Clemente, D. Wallis, L. Hansen, A. Winkelmann, A.J. Wilkinson Tutorial: Crystal orientations and EBSD — Or which way is up? Materials Characterization (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2016.04.008 and https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/31250, Supplementary code can be found here

42. Bhowmik, A., Dolbnya, I.P., Britton, T.B., Jones, N.G., Sernicola, G., Walter, C., Gille,P., Dye, D., Clegg, W.J. and Giuliani, F. Using coupled micropillar compression and micro-Laue diffraction to investigate deformation mechanisms in a complex metallic alloy Al13Co4 Applied Physics Letters (2016)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4944486

https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/29969

41. Jun, T.S., Armstrong, D.E.J. and Britton, T.B. A nanoindentation investigation of local strain rate sensitivity in dual-phase Ti alloys Journal of Alloys and Compounds (2016)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.02.146

https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/29534

40. Jun, T.S., Zhang, Z., Sernicola, G., Dunne, F.P.E., Britton, T.B. Local strain rate sensitivity of single α phase within a dual-phase Ti alloy Acta Materialia (2016)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2016.01.057

https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/29031

39. Jiang, J., Zhang, T., Dunne, F.P.E., and Britton T.B. Deformation compatibility in a single crystalline Ni superalloy Proceedings of the Royal Society A (2016)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2015.0690

https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/28345

38. Jun, T.S., Sernicola, G., Dunne, F.P.E., Britton, T.B. Local deformation mechanisms of two-phase Ti alloy Materials Science and Engineering A (2016)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2015.09.016

https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/26966

2015

37. Antusch, S., Armstrong, D.E.J., Britton, T.B. ,Commin, L., Gibson, J.S. K-L,, Greuner, H., Hoffmann, J., Knabl, W., Pintsuk, G., Rieth, M., Roberts, S.G., Weingaertner, T. Mechanical and microstructural investigations of tungsten and doped tungsten materials produced via powder injection moulding Nuclear Materials and Energy (2015)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nme.2015.04.002

36. Jiang, J, Yang, J., Zhang, T., Dunne, F.P.E. and Britton, T.B. On the mechanistic basis of fatigue crack nucleation in Ni superalloy containing inclusions using high resolution electron backscatter diffraction Acta Materialia (2015)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2015.06.035

https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/26580

35. Zhang, T., Jiang, J., Shollock, B.A., Britton, T.B., and Dunne, F.P.E. Slip localization and fatigue crack nucleation near a non-metallic inclusion in polycrystalline nickel-based superalloy Materials Science and Engineering A (2015)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2015.06.070

34. Gong, J., Britton, T.B., Cuddihy, M., Dunne, F.P.E., and Wilkinson, A.J. <a> Prismatic, <a> Basal, and <c+a> Slip Strengths of Commercially Pure Zr by Micro-cantilever Tests Acta Materialia (2015)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2015.06.020

https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/31552

33. Guo, Y., Collins, D.M., Tarleton, E., Hoffman, F., Tischler, J., Liu, W., Xu, R., Wilkinson, A.J. and Britton, T.B. Measurements of Stress Fields near Grain Boundaries: Exploring Blocked Arrays of Dislocations Acta Materialia (2015)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2015.05.041 #OpenAccess

32. Britton, T.B., Wilkinson, A.J., and Dunne, F.P.E. On the mechanistic basis of micromechanical deformation in hexagonal close packed metals Proceedings of the Royal Society A (2015)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2014.0881

https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/23387

31. Tong, V., Jiang, J., Wilkinson, A.J. and Britton, T.B. The effect of pattern overlap on the accuracy of high resolution electron backscatter diffraction measurements Ultramicroscopy (2015)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2015.04.019 #OpenAccess

30. Jiang, J., Britton, T.B. and Wilkinson, A.J. Evolution of intragranular stresses and dislocation densities during cyclic deformation of polycrystalline copper Acta Materialia (2015)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2015.04.031

https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/23463

29. Weekes, H., Vorontsov, V., Dolbnya, I., Plummer, J., Giuliani, F, Britton, T.B., and Dye, D. In situ micropillar deformation of hydrides in Zircaloy-4 Acta Materialia (2015)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2015.03.037

https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/24044

28. Jiang, J., Britton, T.B.  and Wilkinson, A.J. The orientation and strain dependence of dislocation structure evolution in monotonically deformed copper International Journal of Plasticity (2015)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijplas.2015.02.005 

https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/25966

27. Xian, J.W., Belyakov, S.A., Britton, T.B. and Gourlay, C.M. Heterogenous nucleation of Cu6Sn5 in Sn-Cu-Al Journal of Alloys and Compounds (2015)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2014.08.251

https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/19491

2014

26. Wilkinson, A.J., Tarleton, E. Vilalta-Clemente, A., Jiang, J., Britton, T.B. and Collins, D.M. Measurement of probability distributions for internal stresses in dislocated crystals Applied Physics Letters (2014)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4901219

https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/19489

25. Armstrong, D.E.J. and Britton, T.B. Effect of dislocation density on improved radiation hardening resistance of nano-structured tungsten-rhenium Materials Science and Engineering A (2014)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2014.06.013 #OpenAccess

24. S.C. Speller, P. Dudin, S. Fitzgerald, G.M. Hughes, K. Kruska, T.B. Britton, A. Krzton-Maziopa, E. Pomjakushina, K. Conder, A. Barinov, and C.R.M. Grovenor  High resolution characterisation of microstructural evolution in RbxFe2􀀀ySe2 crystals on annealing Physical Review B (2014)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.024520 

23. Guo, Y., Britton, T.B. and Wilkinson, A.J. Slip band-grain boundary interactions in commercial-purity titanium Acta Materiala (2014)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2014.05.015 

https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/25973

22. Rugg, D., Britton, T.B., Gong, J., Wilkinson, A.J., Bagot, P.A. In-service materials support for safety critical applications – A case study of high strength Ti-alloy using advanced experimental and modelling techniques Materials Science and Engineering A (2014)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2014.01.031

2013

21. Jiang, J., Britton, T.B., and Wilkinson, A.J. Evolution of dislocation density distributions in copper during tensile deformation Acta Materiala (2013)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2013.08.027

20. Britton, T.B., Jiang, J., Clough, R., Tarleton, E., Kirkland, A.I., and Wilkinson, A.J. Assessing the precision of strain measurements using electron backscatter diffraction – part 2: experimental demonstration Ultramicroscopy (2013)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2013.08.006 

19. Britton, T.B., Jiang, J., Clough, R., Tarleton, E., Kirkland, A.I., and Wilkinson, A.J. Assessing the precision of strain measurements using electron backscatter diffraction – part 1: detector assessment Ultramicroscopy (2013)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2013.08.005 

18. Jiang, J., Britton, T.B., and Wilkinson, A.J., Mapping type III intragranular residual stress distributions in deformed copper polycrystals Acta Materialia (2013)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2013.06.038 

17. Britton, T.B., Jiang, J., Karamched, P.S., and Wilkinson, A.J. Probing deformation and revealing microstructural mechanisms with cross-correlation-based, high-resolution electron backscatter diffraction JOM (2013 - invited)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11837-013-0680-6 

16. Wilkinson, A.J., Moldovan, G., Britton, T.B., Bewick, A., Clough, R., and Kirkland, A.I. Direct detection of electron backscatter diffraction patterns Physical Review Letters (2013)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.065506

https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/12047 

15. Jiang, J, Britton, T.B., and Wilkinson, A.J. Measurement of Geometrical Necessarily Dislocation Density with High Resolution Electron Backscatter Diffraction: Effects of Detector Binning and Step Size Ultramicroscopy (2013)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2012.11.003 

14. Murdock, A.T., Koos, A.A, Britton, T.B., Houben, L., Batten,T., Zhang, T., Wilkinson, A.J., Dunin-Borkowski, R., Lekka, C.E., Grobert, N, Controlling orientation, edge geometry and thickness of CVD graphene ACS Nano (2013)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn3049297

2012

13. Britton, T.B. and Wilkinson, A.J. Stress fields and geometrically necessary dislocation density distributions near the head of a blocked slip band Acta Materialia (2012)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2012.07.004 

12. Wilkinson A.J. and Britton, T.B. Strains, Planes and EBSD in Materials Science Materials Today (2012 - invited)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1369-7021(12)70163-3 

11. Jiang, J, Britton, T.B. and Wilkinson, A.J. Accumulation of Geometrically Necessary Dislocations near Grain Boundaries in Deformed Copper Philosophy Magazine Letters (2012)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09500839.2012.700412

10. S. C. Speller, T. B. Britton, G. M. Hughes, A. Krzton-Maziopa, E. Pomjakushina, K. Conder, A. T. Boothroyd, C. R. M. Grovenor Microstructural analysis of phase separation in iron chalcogenide superconductors Superconductor Science and Technology (2012)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-2048/25/8/084023 

9. Britton T.B. and Wilkinson, A.J. High resolution electron backscatter diffraction measurements of elastic strain variations in the presence of larger lattice rotations Ultramicroscopy (2012)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2012.01.004

2011

8. Speller, S.C., Britton, T.B., Hughes, G., Lozano-Perez, S., Boothroyd, A.T., Pomjakushina, E., Conder, K., Grovenor, C.R.M. Analysis of local chemical and structural inhomogeneities in FeySe1-xTex single crystals Applied Physics Letters (2011) and selected for the Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity

http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3659302 

7. Britton, T.B. and Wilkinson, A.J. Measurement of Residual Elastic Strain and Lattice Rotations with High Resolution Electron Backscatter Diffraction Ultramicroscopy (2011)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2011.05.007 

6. Littlewood, P., Britton, T.B., and Wilkinson A.J. Geometrically Necessary Dislocation Density Distributions in Ti-6Al-4V Deformed in Tension Acta Materiala (2011)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2011.07.016 

2010

5. Britton, T.B., Maurice, C., Fortunier, R., Driver, J.H., Day, A.P., Meaden, G., Dingley, D.J., Mingard, K. Wilkinson, A.J. Factors affecting the accuracy of high resolution electron backscatter diffraction when using simulated patterns Ultramicroscopy (2010)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2010.08.001

4. Britton, T.B., Birosca, S., Preuss, M., Wilkinson, A.J. Electron Back Scatter Diffraction Study of Dislocation Content of a Macrozone in Hot Rolled Ti-6Al-4V alloy Scripta Materialia (2010)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2010.01.010 

3. Wilkinson, A.J., Clarke, E.E., Britton, T.B., Littlewood, P., Karamched, P.S. High Resolution Electron Backscatter Diffraction: An Emerging Tool for Studying Local Deformation Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design (2010 - invited)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1243/03093247JSA587

2009

2. Britton, T.B., Liang, H., Dunne, F.P.E., and Wilkinson, A.J. The effect of crystal orientation on the indentation response of commercially pure titanium: experiments and simulations Proceedings of the Royal Society A (2009)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2009.0455 

1. Britton, T.B., Randman, D. and Wilkinson, A.J. Nanoindentation study of slip transfer phenomenon at grain boundaries Journal of Materials Research (2009)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2009.0088

Conference Publications

11. Birch, R. and Britton, T.B. "In situ EBSD Studies of Blocky Grain Growth in Welded Zircaloy-4" https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/microscopy-and-microanalysis/article/in-situ-ebsd-studies-of-blocky-grain-growth-in-welded-zircaloy4/88D76FF8EB9AE8DBA5D71EBA0297834B 

10. Foden, A.F., Previero, A., and Britton, T.B. Advances in electron backscatter diffraction, proceedings article for the Risoe 40th International Symposium on Metal Microstructures in 2D, 3D and 4D 

preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04860 

9. Britton, T.B.B, and Hickey, J.L.R. Understanding deformation with high angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction (HR-EBSD) Accepted for publication in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering

Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00728

8. Jiang, J., Zhang, T., Dunne, F.P.E. and Britton, B. The Power of Correlative Microscopy–Understanding Deformation Compatibility with HR-EBSD and HR-DIC microscopy & microanalysis

https://doi.org/10.1017/S1431927616010497

7. Britton, T.B.B, and Hickey, J.L.R. Understanding deformation with high angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction (HR-EBSD) Book of Tutorials and Abstracts of the EMAS 2017 Workshop / IUMAS-7 Meeting

Pre-print on ArXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00728

6. Rounthwaite, N.J., Williams, R., McGivery, Jiang, J., Giuliani, F. and Britton, T.B. A Chemical and Morphological Study of Diesel Injector Nozzle Deposits - Insights into their Formation and Growth Mechanisms SAE International (2017)

https://saemobilus.sae.org/content/2017-01-0798

5. J.W. Xian, S.A. Belyakov, T.B. Britton and C.M. Gourlay Heterogeneous Nucleation of Bulk Cu6Sn5 in Sn-Ag-Cu-Al and Sn-Cu-Al Solders Electronic Components & Technology Conference (2015)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ECTC.2015.7159915 

4. Gui, Y., Britton, T.B., and Wilkinson, A.J. Stress concentrations, slip bands and grain boundaries in commercially pure titanium Proceedings of the World Titanium Conference (2015)

3. Jun, T.-S., Zhang, Z. , Dunne, F.P.E., Britton, T.B. Evaluation of local rate sensitivity in a dwell-sensitive Ti6242 using micropillar compression Proceedings of the World Titanium Conference (2015)

2. Wilkinson, A.J., Karamched, P.S., Britton, T.B. High resolution EBSD – 3D Strain Tensors, and Geometrically Necessary Dislocation Densities Proceedings of the 31st Risoe International Symposium on Materials Science: Challenges in materials science and possibilities in 3D and 4D characterisation techniques (2010)

1. Wilkinson, A.J., Britton, T.B., Jiang, J., and Karamched, P.S. A review of advances and challenges in EBSD strain mapping IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering

http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/55/1/01202

Articles

1. High angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction: measurement of strain in functional and structural materials | Ben Britton, Ian Holton, Graham Meaden and David Dingley | May 2013

http://www.microscopy-analysis.com/sites/default/files/2013_May_Britton.pdf

2. Energizing Our Future | Ben Britton | July 2019

https://issuu.com/jumpstartmagazine/docs/july_covers (page 17) and https://jumpstartmag.com/energizing-our-future/ 

3. The reward and risk of social media for academics | Ben Britton, Jess Wade, and Chris Jackson | August 2019

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41570-019-0121-3 & https://osf.io/5x6mr/ 

4. Get Talking - Pride in STEM | Ben Britton | July 2019

https://www.iom3.org/materials-world-magazine/news/2019/jul/01/get-talking-pride-stem 

5. Lab Profile: Dr Ben Britton | Laurie Winkless

https://www.materialstoday.com/lab-profile-dr-ben-britton/ 

6. Get Talking - Pride in STEM | Ben Britton | July 2019

https://www.iom3.org/materials-world-magazine/news/2019/jul/01/get-talking-pride-stem 

7. Get Talking - Dealing with Sexual Harassment in Materials Science | Rachel Oliver, Tanvir Hussain, Ben Britton, and Clara Barker | August 2019

https://www.iom3.org/materials-world-magazine/news/2019/aug/29/get-talking-dealing-sexual-harassment-materials-science 

8. Equality, diversity and inclusion in 2019: the good, the bad and the bigoted| Dr Jess Wade; Dr Ben Britton; Dr Clara Nellist; Professor Rachel Oliver; Dr Brian Patton

https://blogs.royalsociety.org/in-verba/2019/10/29/equality-diversity-and-inclusion-in-2019-the-good-the-bad-and-the-bigoted/ 


Data

An iron EBSD data set has been released here by Jim and Ben.

Theses

Vivian Tong (PhD 2016) - "EBSD characterisation of heterogeneous microstructures in zirconium alloys" https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk:8443/handle/10044/1/55106