Morphological and Crystallographic Characterization of Primary Zinc-Rich Crystals in a Ternary Sn-Zn-Bi Alloy under a High Magnetic Field
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results and Discussion
3. Materials and Methods
4. Conclusions
- Irrespective of whether the HMF is applied, the primary zinc-rich crystals reveal a plate-shaped form and grow in three dimensions, as follows: spreading rapidly in the {0001} basal plane and then decreasing the thickness at the edges gradually;
- In the absence of the HMF, the plate-shaped primary zinc-rich crystals align randomly, whereas in the presence of the HMF, those in the central regions of the specimens tend to align vertically;
- Crystallographic analyses indicate that the vertically aligned primary zinc-rich crystals orient preferentially with the c-axis perpendicular to B;
- The preferential orientation and thus the regular vertical alignment should be related to the magnetocrystalline anisotropy of the diamagnetic primary zinc-rich crystals.
Acknowledgments
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Li, L.; Ban, C.; Zhang, R.; Zhang, H.; Cai, M.; Zuo, Y.; Zhu, Q.; Wang, X.; Cui, J. Morphological and Crystallographic Characterization of Primary Zinc-Rich Crystals in a Ternary Sn-Zn-Bi Alloy under a High Magnetic Field. Crystals 2017, 7, 204. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst7070204
Li L, Ban C, Zhang R, Zhang H, Cai M, Zuo Y, Zhu Q, Wang X, Cui J. Morphological and Crystallographic Characterization of Primary Zinc-Rich Crystals in a Ternary Sn-Zn-Bi Alloy under a High Magnetic Field. Crystals. 2017; 7(7):204. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst7070204
Chicago/Turabian StyleLi, Lei, Chunyan Ban, Ruixue Zhang, Haitao Zhang, Minghui Cai, Yubo Zuo, Qingfeng Zhu, Xiangjie Wang, and Jianzhong Cui. 2017. "Morphological and Crystallographic Characterization of Primary Zinc-Rich Crystals in a Ternary Sn-Zn-Bi Alloy under a High Magnetic Field" Crystals 7, no. 7: 204. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst7070204