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Some Recent Applications of X-Ray Topography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

A. R. Lang
A. R. Lang*
Affiliation:
H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory University of Bristol, England
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Abstract

Dislocations, Inclusions, and Precipitates. Impurity precipitated after growth and foreign particles accidentally included during growth both produce intense local strain fields which give rise to diffraction contrast effects resembling those seen in electron microscope images of precipitates. The relationship between the dislocation configuration and these localized strain centers can show whether the latter arise from inclusions or precipitates. Precipitates will generally be found strung along the grown-in dislocations, decorating them. On the other hand, inclusions often generate dislocations by lattice closure errors; such dislocations then fan out from the inclusion in the general direction of advance of the growth interface.

Twin Boundaries and Fault Surfaces. The cases when the twins have parallel lattices, such as in Brazilian and Dauphiné twinning in quartz, are interesting. When the crystals on either side of the twin boundary are both Bragg reflecting, the twin boundary may exhibit ‘stacking fault’ type fringes. From an analysis of the variation of visibility of these fringes in different reflections, the fault vector at the twin boundary and its variation with boundary orientation may be found. In quartz, other types of fault surfaces producing fringe contrast may lie parallel to growth horizons or they may mark growth sector boundaries. In synthetic quartz, they can also mark cell boundaries under conditions of cellular growth.

Internal Magnetic Domain Structures. In plates of Fe + 3% Si roughly parallel to (110), a variety of previously undetected domain structures has been discovered and analyzed. Diffraction contrast is produced by 90° domain walls but not by 180° walls. The 90° walls produce strong diffraction contrast even though the magnetostriction of silicon-iron is only about 10−5. In plates parallel to (112), the main lamination pattern below the complex pattern of surface closures can be revealed and, in favorable cases, interpreted.

X-ray Moiré Patterns. The most direct method of observing X-ray moiré patterns—by topography of one crystal closely superimposed upon another—involves considerable theoretical complexities and produces a variety of curious diffraction patterns. However, it shows promise of providing a means for the comparison of lattice spacings to about one part in 107 and for mapping strain fields very sensitively.

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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 10: Fifteenth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 10-12, 1966 , 1966 , pp. 91 - 107
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1966

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