Defocus convergent beam electron diffraction determination of Burgers vectors of dislocations in quasicrystals.

Principles, method and some application examples of determining Burgers vectors of dislocations in crystals and quasicrystals by means of defocus convergent-beam electron diffraction (CBED) technique are described and reviewed and compared with contrast experiment techniques. By using defocus CBED technique, dislocation reactions during high-temperature plastic deformation of face-centered icosahedral quasicrystals have been studied. These studies lead to a preliminary understanding to the micromechanism of high-temperature plastic deformation of quasicrystals.