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Stress-Induced Phase Transformations in SiC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

Pirouz Pirouz
Pirouz Pirouz*
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Dept. of Material Science & Eng., Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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Tetrahedrally co-ordinated materials can undergo stress-induced structural transformations often under invariant plane strain conditions; examples of such transformations are twinning and polytypism. The structure of a tetrahedrally co-ordinated material, XY, may be considered in terms of an assembly of “normal”, Ti’and “twinned” tetrahedra, T'I’all connected to each other at their corners. In some of these materials, e.g. SiC, GaN or CdS, these corner-sharing tetrahedra may be connected to each other in different ways, giving rise to different polytypes. In this paper, a dislocation model for polytypic transformations is discussed and a few examples of stress-induced transformations are illustrated.

In general, dislocations in XY polytypes he on basal (0001) planes and are generally dissociated into “leading’ and “trailing” partial dislocations with Burgers vectors b1 and bt’ respectively. There is also good evidence that dissociated dislocations in tetrahedrally-coordinated materials belong to the glide set and move on the slip plane in a dissociated manner.

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Microscopy of Ceramics and Minerals
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 4 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis '98, Microscopy Society of America 56th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 32nd Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia July 12-16, 1998 , July 1998 , pp. 548 - 549
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America

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