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Preparation of Macroporous Epitaxial Quartz Films on Silicon by Chemical Solution Deposition
Published on: December 21, 2015
Quartz: extreme preferred orientation produced by annealing
Abstract:
Annealing of samples of flint under high pressure, after hot-working in the beta-quartz stability field, produced an exceedingly strong concentration of c-axes parallel to the direction of compression. A specimen deformed under identical conditions, but not annealed, exhibited a much weaker orientation. The strength of the annealed orientation rivals that of the remarkable "cube texture" produced by annealing some face-centered cubic metals after extreme reduction by rolling.

