The mechanism of twinning in zincblende structure crystals: New insights on polarity effects from a study of magnetic liquid encapsulated Czochralski grown InP single crystals
- State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering; and others
Synchrotron White Beam X-ray Topography (SWBXT) and synchrotron X-ray anomalous scattering have been employed to determine the polarity of {l_brace}111{r_brace} edge facets, anchored to the three phase boundary (TPB) on which twinning is observed to nucleate in Magnetic Liquid Encapsulated Czochralski (MLEC) grown sulfur doped, <001> InP single crystals. Analysis of the results indicates that both the formation of edge facets and the nucleation of twins occur preferentially on {l_brace}{bar 1}{bar 1}{bar 1}{r_brace}{sub P} faces. Of the four possible sets of edge facets, belonging to the {l_brace}{bar 1}{bar 1}{bar 1}{r_brace}{sub P} form, which are oriented so as to be thermodynamically favored to be anchored to the TPB, two can give rise to a {l_brace}115{r_brace} to {l_brace}{bar 1}{bar 1}{bar 1}{r_brace}{sub P} external should facet conversion upon twinning, while the other two can give rise to a {l_brace}114{r_brace} to {l_brace}110{r_brace} conversion. For these cases, twinning is only observed when the {l_brace}{bar 1}{bar 1}{bar 1}{r_brace}{sub P} edge facets are anchored to the TPB in a region where the shoulder angle is close to 74.21{degree} or 70.53{degree}, facilitating the production of the {l_brace}115{r_brace} and {l_brace}114{r_brace} external should facets, respectively, prior to twinning. These observations are discussed in light of calculated surface energies of the various internal and external facets.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, VA (United States); National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC (United States); USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH00016
- OSTI ID:
- 302388
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-980405-; TRN: 99:002620
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Spring meeting of the Materials Research Society, San Francisco, CA (United States), 13-17 Apr 1998; Other Information: PBD: 1998; Related Information: Is Part Of Applications of synchrotron radiation techniques to materials science 4; Mini, S.M. [ed.] [Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL (United States)]|[Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)]; Stock, S.R. [ed.] [Georgia Inst. of Tech., Atlanta, GA (United States)]; Perry, D.L. [ed.] [Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., CA (United States)]; Terminello, L.J. [ed.] [Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)]; PB: 398 p.; Materials Research Society symposium proceedings, Volume 524
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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