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Determination Of Rigid-Body Lattice Translations Across Antiphase and Twin Boundaries in Compound Semiconductors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 July 2020
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The physical properties of crystalline materials are dependent on the presence and nature of planar defects such as grain boundaries within the crystalline lattice. A comprehensive understanding of a material's properties requires a detailed knowledge of the atomic structure and chemistry of such defects. In general, the crystal orientation relationship at grain boundaries and related planar defects are described in geometric terms, such as the coincidence-site lattice (CSL) model. However, geometric models do not take account of the atomic bonding across grain boundaries whose characteristics differ from that in the bulk. In general, defect structures may relax from the exact CSL orientation in order to minimize the energy of the interface. Lattice relaxations can manifest as a local rearrangement of the atoms close to the boundary and/or rigid-body lattice translations which perturb the relative positions of the grains far from the interface.
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- Spatially-Resolved Characterization of Interfaces in Materials
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