POINT DEFECTS AND DISLOCATIONS IN SILVER CHLORIDE

Abstract

Three experiments on imperfections in silver chloride crystals are reviewed. (a) Studies of the strain-aging in impure crystals as a function of time, temperature, and purity establish that the dislocations are pinned by divalent impurities which migrate with an activation energy of 0.46 e.v. (b) Observations of ionic conductivity during pulsed plasticity indicate that excess silver interstitials are created with an efficiency of .0000007 fractional concentration per unit strain; these interstitials have a lifetime of one hundred million jumps. (c) Measurements of the annealing out of excess electrical conductivity of quenched crystals give the divacancy binding energy to be 0.42 e.v. and the migration energy to be 1.0 e.v. The concentration of Schottky defects at high temperatures is estimated to be approximately 0.1%. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1962
Accession Number
AD0276839

Entities

People

  • H. Layer
  • M.n. Kabler

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chlorides
  • Conductivity
  • Crystals
  • Dislocations
  • Electrical Conductivity
  • Energy
  • Heat Of Activation
  • High Temperature
  • Impurities
  • Point Defects

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Materials Science and Engineering.