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Raman scattering is an inelastic light-scattering technique that finds wide application in physics, chemistry, geology, engineering, and life sciences. It is a nondestructive evaluation method that gives information on vibrational modes in sample materials and can thus be used for characterization of structure and composition of materials. This includes phase identification (study of polytypes and phase transitions), characterization of residual stress and strain, studies of nanomaterials, radiation damage, catalysis processes, corrosion mechanisms, oxide formation, metabolic process in biological tissues, and many more. Information is obtained at the micron scale in materials, and Raman mapping can be used to determine composition and stress/strain in materials at similar spatial scales. Advances in instrumentation over the past decade or so have made the technique more widely accessible, and a brief overview of dispersive Raman instrumentation is given. The description of the basics of the method focuses on solid materials, and applications focus on phase identification and NDE of stress and strain. The examples covered in more detail include stress determination in diamond and polycrystalline diamond (PCD) tools and in situ characterization of corrosion processes on iron surfaces. The chapter concludes with a short overview of other NDE applications, with citations of relevant literature, and method developments such as tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS).

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Acknowledgements

Financial support from the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa under Grant No 2053306, the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Strong Materials hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand, the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and the African Laser Centre (ALC) is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. School of Physics, Materials Physics Research Institute and DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Strong Materials, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    R. M. Erasmus & J. D. Comins

  2. Microscopy and Microanalysis Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    R. M. Erasmus

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Erasmus, R.M., Comins, J.D. (2018). Raman Scattering. In: Ida, N., Meyendorf, N. (eds) Handbook of Advanced Non-Destructive Evaluation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30050-4_29-1

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