Ri. Ristic et al., THE ASSESSMENT OF STRAIN IN MATERIALS USING SYNCHROTRON-RADIATION TECHNIQUES AND THE ROLE OF STRAIN IN GROWTH-RATE DISPERSION, Journal of crystal growth, 144(1-2), 1994, pp. 87-90
A question has been raised [Rule et al., J. Crystal Growth 123 (1992)
373] concerning the reliability of recent studies which we have made o
f the role of strain in defining growth rate dispersion in sodium chlo
rate microcrystals. A particular criticism was that our method of asse
ssment of strain using synchrotron X-radiation was invalid due to the
fact that radiation damage could have occurred in the samples. The aut
hors also claimed that they could find no correlation between strain a
nd growth rate. In this response we seek to define that the method of
assessment of strain was sound.