X-RAY DIFFRACTION STUDY ON LATTICE VIBRATION OF FINE PARTICLES

Abstract
The Debye temper~ture OM = 156 K has been obtained for the fine particles of silver, whose size was about 150 A in diameter, from the X-ray diffraction experiment on the temperature dependence of the integrated intensity in the Debye-Schemer rings. The fact that the Debye temperature obtained in the present experiment is much lower than that of the bulk silver crystal, i.e. OM = 212 K, concludes the softening of lattice vibration occurring in the fine particles of silver.

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