Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Etching Morphology and Symmetry of TeO2 Crystal

FANG Ya-Ke; SANG Wen-Bin; MIN Jia-Hua   

  1. Department of Electronic Information Materials; Shanghai University; Shanghai 201800; China
  • Received:2003-09-22 Revised:2003-11-05 Published:2004-11-20 Online:2004-11-20

Abstract: The etching morphologies of TeO2 crystal on (110) and (001) faces were observed by means of chemical etching and analyzed with the theory of symmetry group. The morphologies of etch pits are very special compared with the tetragonal system crystal with 422 point group. The morphologies of etch pits by theoretical analysis are in conformity with the experiment. It shows that the patterns of etch pits consist of {110} planes. It is clear that the habitual plane of TeO2 crystal is {110} plane.

Key words: TeO2 crystal, etching, dislocation, symmetry

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