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14<br />

Dihedral Angles<br />

• An material with uniform grain boundary energy should have<br />

dihedral angles equal to 120°.<br />

• Likely in real materials? No! Low angle boundaries (crystalline<br />

materials) always have a dislocation structure <strong>and</strong> therefore a<br />

monotonic increase in energy with misorientation angle (Read-<br />

Shockley model).<br />

• The inset figure is taken from a paper in preparation by Prof. K.<br />

Barmak <strong>and</strong> shows the distribution of dihedral angles measured<br />

in a 0.1 µm thick film of Al, along with a calculated distribution<br />

based on an GB energy function from a similar film (with two<br />

different assumptions about the distribution of misorientations).

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