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On the correlation between stacking‐fault energy and atomic structures of polytypes
Author(s) -
Agrawal V. K.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
journal of applied crystallography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.429
H-Index - 162
ISSN - 1600-5767
DOI - 10.1107/s0021889873008046
Subject(s) - stacking fault energy , stacking , energy (signal processing) , crystallography , value (mathematics) , materials science , fault (geology) , condensed matter physics , molecular physics , physics , chemistry , dislocation , mathematics , statistics , geology , quantum mechanics , nuclear magnetic resonance , seismology
The stacking‐fault energy criterion for determining the atomic structures of polytypes has been considered. It is shown that, as the energy difference between various stackings of a polytype is small, this criterion alone is of little value.