Kikuchi diffraction via MTex

MTex is a software for texture analysis written in MATLAB. The software is one of the key tools of materials engineers and geologists to perform computations in orientation space to segment a characterized portion of material into a representation of its microstructure. The software offers the largest and most mature solution for analyzing and plotting texture analyses whereby research questions about texture quantification and visualization using pole figures, orientation distribution functions, inverse pole figures, and grain-boundary-network characterization is achieved. Thanks to its support of all symmetry classes, the tool has not only found wide acceptance within the field of materials engineering but also within the geoscience communities.

As a result, this MTex-based parsing of certain Kikuchi diffraction relevant content equips the pynxtools-em parser and normalizer currently with functionalities to read the following content and map on respective NeXus concepts that are defined in the NXem application definition and the NXem_ebsd base class:

Orientation, phase	NeXus/HDF5
Oxford Instruments ANG
HKL Channel5 CPR/CRC
OSC
CTF