Correlation Between Crystal Structure, Relative Growth Rates and Evolution of Crystal Surfaces

• Authors: J. Prywer
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

According to most crystal growth theories, the "as grown" crystal morphology is dominated by the slow-growing faces and the fast-growing faces may "grow out" and not be represented in the final crystal habit. In this paper a brief survey is given of the recently developed correlation between the evolution of both fast- and slow-growing surfaces, their relative growth rates, and the crystallographic structure of crystal. It is shown that even the fast-growing faces may increase their sizes. On the other hand, the slow-growing faces may decrease and, in consequence, disappear from crystal morphology. Such a behaviour of slow- and fast-growing surfaces influences the growth and evolution of both low- and high-index faces.

Keywords

EN

81.10.Aj

Discipline

• 81.10.Aj: Theory and models of crystal growth; physics and chemistry of crystal growth, crystal morphology, and orientation(see also 61.50.Nw Crystal stoichiometry)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2003
• Volume: 103
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 85-100

Dates

published

2003-01

received

2002-05-17

revised

2002-09-17

(unknown)

2002-11-08

Contributors

author

J. Prywer

• Institute of Physics, Technical University of Łódź, Wólczańska 219, 93-005 Łódź, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.103.85