The crystallographic texture of graphite-like and diamond-like boron nitride bulk materials

Author: Solozhenko V.L.   Petrusha I.A.   Engler O.   Bingert J.F.  

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

ISSN: 0022-2461

Source: Journal of Materials Science, Vol.36, Iss.11, 2001-06, pp. : 2659-2665

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Abstract

X-ray powder diffraction and quantitative texture analysis have been employed to study the crystallographic relation of parent and product phases in direct transformations of graphite-like BN polymorphs into diamond-like BN phases at a pressure of 7.7 GPa and temperatures up to 2600 K. It has been found that the transformation of both CVD-produced bulk slightly textured turbostratic BN (tBN) and highly textured graphite-like hexagonal BN (hBN) results in a preferred orientation of the crystallites of the new cubic BN (cBN) due to the (111)_cBN ∥ (001)_tBN, hBN epitaxial relation. Phase transformation of a CVD-produced bulk highly textured rhombohedral BN (rBN) results in the formation of highly textured wurtzitic BN (wBN) according to the (100)_wBN ∥ (001)_rBN crystallographic relation.