Feasibility Study of Birefringence imaging with a tilting stage

继一个成功的项目学生，这是一个建议，继续发展双折射成像显微镜，包括一个倾斜的阶段。双折射是测量样品光学各向异性的一种重要而灵敏的方法，在传统显微镜中，双折射通常只能在显微镜载玻片上的投影中观察到。增加一个倾斜的阶段，原则上可以获得平面外的信息，从而给出完整的三维数据。由此产生的系统将有助于晶体材料的自动识别，特别是对岩石学切片和混合相晶体等标本的纹理测定。因此，这个主题在本质上是跨学科的，跨越晶体学，材料科学，地球科学和化学。

Following on from a successful project studentship this is a proposal to continue the development of a birefringence imaging microscope incorporating a tilting stage. The birefringence is an important and sensitive measure of optical anisotropy in a sample and in conventional microscopy it is usually only observed in projection onto a microscope slide. The addition of a tilting stage enables in principle information to be obtained out of the plane and hence to give full three-dimensional data. The resulting system will help towards automatic identification of crystalline materials and, of especial interest, the determination of texture in specimens, such as in petrological sections and in mixed phase crystals. As such this topic is interdisciplinary in nature, spanning crystallography, materials science, earth sciences and chemistry.