Determination of structural inhomogeneity of synthesized diamonds by backscattering electron diffraction

The technique based on analysis of geometry and intensity distribution profiles on Kikuchi patterns obtained due to electron backscattering diffraction for defining structural imperfection of diamond crystals has been suggested. To determine the geometry parameters in Kikuchi patterns with the maximal precision special software was developed. It is shown that application of electron diffraction (Kikuchi method) allows information to be obtained about the degree of perfection and homogeneity of real structure for diamond crystals synthesized by different methods.

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