Texture polycrystalline randomly oriented substrate

Figure 7.15. Schematic representation of polycrystalline randomly oriented substrate (a) and substrate with preferred orientation (texture) (h).

Electrodeposition on a randomly oriented polycrystalline substrate can result in the development of preferred orientation, or texture, in thicker deposits. In a polycrys-talline material, the crystallographic axis of individual grains (individual crystallites) that constitute the material are randomly oriented with respect to the axes of a fixed reference system (Fig. 33a). If one or more... 

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