Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name)
4. [processes and techniques by specific type]
5. physicochemical processes

Narrower term/s

• electron backscatter diffraction
• Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy [NP]
• electron backscattering

Anotations

Scope note:

The scattering of radiation, such as x-rays, in a direction approximately opposite to that of the incident radiation and due to reflection from particles of the medium traversed; sometimes produced and examined as a technique for analyzing materials.