For larger volume fractions of whiskers, up to the critical volume fraction for formation of facet-to-facet contact, whiskers inhibit grain-boundary sliding and deformation proceeds by means of pure diffusion.
After 13 min of irradiation, formation of facets on the recrystallized surface is also observed.
The chevron shape of the spots is related to the formation of facets [38] on In nano crystals.
The influence of anisotropy on the microstructure evolution shows the formation of facets in preferred crystallographic directions.
The fourth-order convective Cahn-Hilliard (FCCH) equation arises naturally as a continuous model for the formation of facets and corners in crystal growth.
Therefore the nature of the sub-peaks can be directly ascribed to the formation of facets with non-conventional bounding step-edges.
When annealed, these films dewetted from the substrate via the formation of faceted hexagonally shaped holes, which grow anisotropically with increasing annealing time.
In the case of drawn wires, introducing load holds promoted crack initiation at the surface, through the formation of a facet on a prismatic plane of a surface grain that was oriented for very easy prismatic slip.
This implies that the formation of a facet requires a combination of a moderately high Schmid factor for basal slip coupled with a tensile component perpendicular to the basal plane.
During the process of TiO2 crystal growth, fluorine ions in the sol precursor were preferentially adsorbed on the {001} facets, which retarded the growth and facilitated the formation of {001} facets.
