Mm. Zein, DISLOCATION RELAXATION IN SILVER SINGLE-CRYSTALS AT MEGAHERTZ FREQUENCIES, Journal of physics. Condensed matter, 6(47), 1994, pp. 10253-10262
The Bordoni peak in high-purity silver single crystals has been invest
igated by measuring the attenuation of longitudinal waves of 5, 10 and
30 MHz, using a conventional ultrasonic pulse technique with single q
uartz transducer. The crystals, of [100], [110] and [111] orientations
, were deformed by compression, and the temperature-dependent ultrason
ic attenuation was measured after applying resolved shear stresses ran
ging up to 60 N mm(-2). The results lead to the following conclusions:
(i) the temperature of the Bordoni peak in silver single crystals is
essentially independent of the orientation; (ii) the temperature of th
e Bordoni peak in silver single crystals decreases as the prior deform
ation is increased up to resolved shear stress near 28 N mm(-2), and t
hen increases for higher prior stresses; (iii) the Bordoni peak height
decreases as the frequency increases and (iv) the Bordoni peak height
increases with increasing the amount of deformation.