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Observation of clusters of point defects in films of doped gold

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Il Nuovo Cimento (1955-1965)

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Clusters of lattice vacancies are observed, with the help of an electron microscope, in thin evaporated films of doped gold after quenching. Different kinds of aggregates, which are resolved into prismatic loops, stacking-fault tetrahedra, and small dots which can be interpreted as vacancy clusters, are observed; the actual features of the defect structure depend on the supersaturation conditions and on the amount of the doping agent (silver: up to 10-2 atomic concentration).

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Si descrivono i risultati di esami al mioroscopio elettronico di aggregati di vacanze reticolari indotti da tempra in strati sottili evaporati di oro contenente impurità. Si osservano difierenti tipi di aggregati, che possono essere risolti in anelli di dislocazione a sezione prismatica, tetraedri dovuti a difetti di impilamento, e piccoli addensamenti interpretabili come aggregati di vacanze. Le caratteristiche strutturali dei difetti osservati dipendono dalle condizioni di sovrassaturazione e dall’ammontare di impurità (argento in concentrazione atomica fino a 10-2).

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This work has been supported in part by CNR and CSFN.

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Germagnoli, E., Mancini, N. Observation of clusters of point defects in films of doped gold. Nuovo Cim 29, 670–676 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02827789

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