ON THE STABILITY OF THE STRUCTURE OF CRYSTAL SURFACES
Abstract
A crystal surface arbitrarily oriented is not necessarily stable. For some orientations, the crystal surface breaks up into a structure containing several new orientations, which might be called surface phases. A thermodynamical treatment is presented, to determine the conditions under which this happens, which follows exactly the same lines as the theory of equilibrium of volume phases. It shows that the equilibrium surface structure for a given average orientation will contain one, two or three orientations (surface phases) depending on the number of points a tangent plane touches the surface beta, representing the surface tension, per unit area of a reference surface, as a function of orientation. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1962
- Accession Number
- AD0286427
Entities
People
- N. Cabrera
Organizations
- University of Virginia