A Weak-Beam Study of the Microstructure of β-CUZN Deformed in the Domain of Flow Stress Anomaly

1988 ◽  
Vol 133 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Dirras ◽  
P. Beauchamp ◽  
P. Veyssière

ABSTRACTβ-brass single crystals oriented along <001> were deformed between room temperature and 300°C. The deformation microstructure and dissociation properties were studied by transmission electron microscopy under weak-beam imaging conditions.Whatever the deformation temperature, superdislocations with <111> Burgers vector and strong edge component dominate within the microstructure. In addition, below the temperature of the flow stress peak (≈ 250°C), the density of screw relative to mixed superdislocations decreases as straining temperature increases. Dissociation does not always occur on the slip plane neither does it proceed exclusively by glide, even in samples deformed at 100°C.

Author(s):  
J. J. Hren ◽  
W. D. Cooper ◽  
L. J. Sykes

Small dislocation loops observed by transmission electron microscopy exhibit a characteristic black-white strain contrast when observed under dynamical imaging conditions. In many cases, the topography and orientation of the image may be used to determine the nature of the loop crystallography. Two distinct but somewhat overlapping procedures have been developed for the contrast analysis and identification of small dislocation loops. One group of investigators has emphasized the use of the topography of the image as the principle tool for analysis. The major premise of this method is that the characteristic details of the image topography are dependent only on the magnitude of the dot product between the loop Burgers vector and the diffracting vector. This technique is commonly referred to as the (g•b) analysis. A second group of investigators has emphasized the use of the orientation of the direction of black-white contrast as the primary means of analysis.


1988 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Mchargue ◽  
P. S. Sklad ◽  
C. W. White ◽  
G. C. Farlow ◽  
A. Perez ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTSingle crystals of α-Al2O3 were implanted with 57Fe+ at room temperature to fluences ranging from 1016 to 1017 ions/cm2. The damage in the implanted zone and the valence states and local environment of implanted ions were studied by transmission electron microscopy, Rutherford backscattering-channelling, and conversion electron Mössbauer spectroscopy. The implanted iron was distributed among the three charge states Fe2+, Fe3+, and Fe°(metallic clusters) with the relative amount of each varying with concentration of implanted iron.


2000 ◽  
Vol 622 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. H. Hong ◽  
P. Pirouz ◽  
P. M. Tavernier ◽  
D. R. Clarke

ABSTRACTVickers hardness tests on {0001} and (1120) faces of a relatively thick GaN film grown on a (0001) sapphire substrate have been performed in the temperature range 25-1200°C. The microstructure of the plastic zone around the indentation sites has been investigated by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). At room temperature, the hardness was measured to be 12.3 GPa on the basal plane, and 11.1 GPa on the prism plane. The hardness decreases gradually with increasing temperature up to ∼800°C and then shows a plateau between ∼800 and ∼1050°C after which it decreases again above ∼1100°C. In contrast to the rather straight dislocations produced by room-temperature indentation of the (0001) face, the dislocations generated by indenting the (1120) face at room temperature were curved and in the shape of half-loops emanating from the indentation sites on the prism planes. Such dislocations were not dissociated within the resolution of weak-beam TEM.


1992 ◽  
Vol 242 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Audurier ◽  
J. L. Demenet ◽  
J. Rabier

ABSTRACTAlN ceramics were plastically deformed using uniaxial compression under hydrostatic pressure between room temperature (RT) and 800°C. Deformation microstructures have been studied by Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) using the weak beam technique. The deformation substructure at RT is characterized by perfect glide loops with 1/3<1120> Burgers vector in (0001) elongated in the screw direction. When deformation temperature increases, the screw character is associated to cross slip events and dislocation dipolesare found. In the investigated temperature range, slip of dislocations with 1/3<1120> Burgers vector is also evidenced on prismatic planes. Weak beam observations failed to evidence any dislocation splitting. Some of these dislocation properties, similar to those of III-V compound semiconductors, suggest that electronic doping effects could be used to control plastic behaviour of covalent ceramics.


Author(s):  
A.J. Tousimis ◽  
T.R. Padden

The size, shape and surface morphology of human erythrocytes (RBC) were examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), of the fixed material directly and by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of surface replicas to compare the relative merits of these two observational procedures for this type specimen.A sample of human blood was fixed in glutaraldehyde and washed in distilled water by centrifugation. The washed RBC's were spread on freshly cleaved mica and on aluminum coated microscope slides and then air dried at room temperature. The SEM specimens were rotary coated with 150Å of 60:40- gold:palladium alloy in a vacuum evaporator using a new combination spinning and tilting device. The TEM specimens were preshadowed with platinum and then rotary coated with carbon in the same device. After stripping the RBC-Pt-C composite film, the RBC's were dissolved in 2.5N HNO3 followed by 0.2N NaOH leaving the preshadowed surface replicas showing positive topography.


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