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Patterns of Competitive Crystal Growth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

Juan M. García-Ruiz and
A. Rodriguez-Navarro
Juan M. García-Ruiz
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Estudios Cristalográficos, IAGM, CSIC-Universidad de Granada, Av. Fuentenueva s/n, Granada 18002, Spain
A. Rodriguez-Navarro
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Estudios Cristalográficos, IAGM, CSIC-Universidad de Granada, Av. Fuentenueva s/n, Granada 18002, Spain
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Abstract

We present a computer simulation of the problem of competitive crystal growth of one-dimensional and two-dimensional single crystals restricted to a two-dimensional space. Two similar competition indexes ξ and χ accounting for the degree of preferred orientation developped during the growth process are defined and we show that they varies linearly with the film thickness. The existence of a clear formal similarity between ξ and χ indexes defined in the direct space with a textural index τ defined in the reciprocal space permits the identification of a competitive growth process by X-ray diffraction.

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