ON THE DETERMINATION OF THE NATURE OF DEFECT CLUSTERS PRODUCED BY DISPLACEMENT CASCADES .1. A CRITIQUE OF THE 2-AND-A-HALF-DIMENSIONAL TECHNIQUE AS APPLIED TO SMALL CLUSTERS IN SILVER AND COPPER
H. Fukushima et al., ON THE DETERMINATION OF THE NATURE OF DEFECT CLUSTERS PRODUCED BY DISPLACEMENT CASCADES .1. A CRITIQUE OF THE 2-AND-A-HALF-DIMENSIONAL TECHNIQUE AS APPLIED TO SMALL CLUSTERS IN SILVER AND COPPER, Philosophical magazine. A. Physics of condensed matter. Structure, defects and mechanical properties, 75(6), 1997, pp. 1567-1582
The application of the two-and-a-half-dimensional (2 1/2 D) technique
to the analysis of the nature of small point-defect clusters in ion-ir
radiated silver and copper has been explored. A modification of the te
chnique which allows the identification of reciprocal-lattice spike ef
fects has been made. However, even with this modification a comparison
of analyses of the same clusters by 2 1/2 D and the Black-White contr
ast method showed that 2 1/2 D analyses of small faulted point-defect
clusters are unreliable.