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Hrem Of General And Twist Grain Boundaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

K. L. Merkle  and
L. J. Thompson
K. L. Merkle
Affiliation:
Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL60439
L. J. Thompson
Affiliation:
Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL60439
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The observation of atomic-scale structures of grain boundaries (GBs) via axial illumination HREM has been largely restricted to tilt GBs, due to the requirement that the electron beam be parallel to a low-index zone axis on both sides of the interface. This condition can be fulfilled for all tilt GBs with misorientation about a low-index direction. The information obtained through HREM studies in many materials has brought important insights concerning the atomic-scale structure of such boundaries. However, it is well known that tilt GBs occupy only an infinitesimally small fraction of the 5-dimensional phase space which describes the macroscopic geometry of all GBs. Therefore, although tilt GBs are very important due to their low energy, it would be usefulto also study twist GBs and general GBs that contain twist and tilt components.

We have prepared thin-film Au samples by an epitaxy technique in which (01l) and (001) grains are grown side by side.

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Atomic Structure And Microchemistry Of Interfaces
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 5 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis '99, Microscopy Society of America 57th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 33rd Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon August 1-5, 1999 , August 1999 , pp. 108 - 109
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3. The authors acknowledge the use of the facilities of the ANL/MSD Electron Microscopy Center.This work was supported by the U.S. DOE, BES, under contract W-31-109-Eng-38.Google Scholar