Spatial distributions of local strains in synthesized diamond crystals from the normalized parameters of Kikuchi patterns

I.M. Fodchuk; S.V. Balovsyak; M.S. Solodkyi; M.D. Borcha; D.-I. Băilă; R. Labudzki; M. Bonilla

doi:10.15330/pcss.25.4.773-781

Authors

I.M. Fodchuk Yuri Fedjkovych Chernivtsy National University, Chernivtsy, Ukraine
S.V. Balovsyak Yuri Fedjkovych Chernivtsy National University, Chernivtsy, Ukraine
M.S. Solodkyi Yuri Fedjkovych Chernivtsy National University, Chernivtsy, Ukraine
M.D. Borcha Yuri Fedjkovych Chernivtsy National University, Chernivtsy, Ukraine
D.-I. Băilă National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
R. Labudzki Poznan University of Technology, Poznań, Poland
M. Bonilla Edibon International S.A., Mostoles, Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15330/pcss.25.4.773-781

Keywords:

synthesized diamonds, electron backscatter diffraction, Kikuchi pattern, strain distribution, Fourier transform, energy Fourier spectrum, cluster analysis

Abstract

This paper presents an improved approach to the calculation and analysis of spatial distributions of local strains in synthesized diamond crystals obtained from the normalized parameters of Kikuchi patterns. This approach consists in the study of Kikuchi patterns using normalized Kikuchi band profiles and the normalized characteristics of the energy Fourier spectrum of the diffraction patterns. The spatial strain distribution for 6 samples of polycrystalline artificial diamond was studied. A cluster analysis of the investigated crystal samples was carried out, which made it possible to establish relationships between the conditions of diamond crystal growth and their strain distributions.

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