RGO electrical steel with low power losses and high permeability to be used in power transformers obtains its superior magnetic properties by a sharp Gosstexture developed by secondary recrystallization. RGO is produced by a two stage cold rolling process with intermediate annealing and subsequent primary recrystallization. By ODF analysis a high Goss intensity after primary reerystallization was empirically proved to be advantageous for the development of a sharp final Gosstexture in the

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... ing secondary recrystallization. This, in turn, requires a better understanding of how to achieve the beneficial primary Goss-texture formed by the basic processes of nucleation and growth. In the-present study the early state of recrystallization was investigated. Only the EBSP-method (lectron_.back_ scattering ]]attern), recently developed by Dingley, provides a sufficient submieron spatial resolution to measure the orientations of the early nuclei together with their cold worked and recovered environment.