Angus J Wilkinson is a professor of materials science based at

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in contin ...

. He is a specialist in micromechanics, electron microscopy and

crystal plasticity Crystal plasticity is a mesoscale computational technique that takes into account crystallographic anisotropy in modelling the mechanical behaviour of Crystallite, polycrystalline materials. The technique has typically been used to study deformatio ...

. He assists in overseeing the MicroMechanics group while focusing on the fundamentals of material deformation. He developed the

HR-EBSD Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) is a scanning electron microscope–based microstructural-crystallographic characterization technique commonly used in the study of crystalline or polycrystalline materials. The technique can provide info ...

method for mapping stress and

dislocation density In materials science, a dislocation or Taylor's dislocation is a linear crystallographic defect or irregularity within a crystal structure that contains an abrupt change in the arrangement of atoms. The movement of dislocations allow atoms to sl ...

at high spatial resolution used at the micron scale in mechanical testing and micro-cantilevers to extract data on mechanical properties that are relevant to materials engineering.

Selected publications

* Wilkinson AJ, Meaden G, Dingley DJ. High-resolution elastic strain measurement from electron backscatter diffraction patterns: New levels of sensitivity.

Ultramicroscopy ''Ultramicroscopy'' is an established peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of electron microscopy. The journal editor-in-chief is Professor Angus Kirkland and it is published by Elsevier. It provides a forum for the publication of original ...

2006;106:307–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2005.10.001. * Wilkinson AJ, Hirsch PB. Electron diffraction based techniques in scanning electron microscopy of bulk materials. Micron 1997;28:279–308. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0968-4328(97)00032-2. * Wilkinson AJ, Britton T. Strains, planes, and EBSD in materials science. Materials Today 2012;15:366–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1369-7021(12)70163-3. * Wilkinson AJ, Randman D. Determination of elastic strain fields and geometrically necessary dislocation distributions near nanoindents using electron back scatter diffraction. Philosophical Magazine 2010;90:1159–77. https://doi.org/10.1080/14786430903304145. * Guo Y, Britton TB, Wilkinson AJ. Slip band–grain boundary interactions in commercial-purity titanium. Acta Mater 2014;76:1–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ACTAMAT.2014.05.015. * Britton TB, Wilkinson AJ. High resolution electron backscatter diffraction measurements of elastic strain variations in the presence of larger lattice rotations.

2012;114:82–95. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ULTRAMIC.2012.01.004. * Zhai T, Wilkinson AJ, Martin JW. A crystallographic mechanism for fatigue crack propagation through grain boundaries. Acta Mater 2000;48:4917–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1359-6454(00)00214-7.

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Angus Wilkinson at Department of Materials, University of Oxford
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