Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Morphologies and Orientations of Aluminum Nitride Whiskers

MIAO Weiguo; WU Yin; ZHOU Heping   

  1. Department of materials Science and Engineering; Tsinyhua university Beijing 100084 China
  • Received:1996-04-22 Revised:1996-07-03 Published:1997-06-20 Online:1997-06-20

Abstract: Morphologies of ALN whiskers grown by vapor-liquid-solid mechanism (VLS) were investigated. Several types of whisker structures such as growth hill, stack structure were found. Orientations of AlN whiskers were studied, besides preferential crystallographic planes, {101n}(n=1,2,3)were found to be growth layers. Axial screw dislocation growth mechanism was confirmed, alsooblique growth mechanism was proposed.

Key words: aluminum nitride whisker, orientation