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High-Temperature Indentation of Natural Diamond and the Quest for Lonsdaleite

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Attempts were made to produce bands of hexagonal diamond (Lonsdaleite) by high-temperature indentation of cubic diamond. (011) wafers of type I diamond were indented over the temperature range 1000–1300°C and the microstructure of the indentation plastic zone investigated by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). No hexagonal diamond was produced; instead, the plastic zone consisted of arrays of \({1 \over 2} < 110 > \) dislocations lying on the {001} planes. A possible mechanism for the generation of such dislocations, and reasons for the absence of hexagonal diamond, are discussed.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA

    P. Pirouz, A. Garg, X. J. Ning, J. W. Yang & S. Q. Xiao

  2. NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH, 44135, USA

    A. Garg

  3. APA Optics, Inc., Blaine, MN, 55434, USA

    J. W. Yang

  4. National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    S. Q. Xiao

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Pirouz, P., Garg, A., Ning, X.J. et al. High-Temperature Indentation of Natural Diamond and the Quest for Lonsdaleite. MRS Online Proceedings Library 383, 73–83 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-383-73

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