A transmission electron microscopy study has been made of defects in yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG). Three kinds of planar defect were observed: antiphase boundaries generated by slip on {110} planes, antiphase domain boundaries separating regions of crystal which appear to have slightly different lattice parameter, and orientation twins.
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Ashbee et al. (1968) studied this question.
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