Grain Boundary Properties: Energy (L21) - Materials Science and ...
Grain Boundary Properties: Energy (L21) - Materials Science and ...
Grain Boundary Properties: Energy (L21) - Materials Science and ...
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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).