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The Crystal Habits of Small Particles of Aluminium and Silver Prepared by Evaporation in Clean Atmosphere of Argon

Kazuo Kimoto and Isao Nishida

(Received February 14, 1977)

The crystal morphology of small particles of aluminium and silver made by evaporation under very clean conditions in 99.99% pure argon at 10∼20 Torr has been studied by electron microscopy and electron diffraction. The sum of the partial pressures of the residual gases other than argon in the evaporation chamber at the time of evaporation was of the order of 10^-9 Torr. The individual aluminium particles thus obtained had the shape of a cubo-octahedron with smoothly curved edges and corners, and the silver particles were mainly multiply-twinned with icosahedral shape. Comparisons are made between the present results and those already obtained from the small particles made in an ordinary vacuum chamber.

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DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.16.941

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