Together with colleagues from Hitachi High-Technologies Europe, Margaret Smith and Karen Thompson recently published an article in Heritage Science on the application of ion milling to the preparation and analysis of cross-section samples.
Accurate materials analysis plays an important role in the study and conservation of historical objects. This research investigates how the level of detail that can be seen in the heterogeneous layers of cross-sections where a textile is present is greatly improved by the ion-milling of the samples.