Dislocation relaxation in silver single crystals at megahertz frequencies

Abstract

The Bordoni peak in high-purity silver single crystals has been investigated by measuring the attenuation of longitudinal waves of 5, 10 and 30 MHz, using a conventional ultrasonic pulse technique with single quartz transducer. The crystals, of (100), (110) and (111) orientations, were deformed by compression, and the temperature-dependent ultrasonic attenuation was measured after applying resolved shear stresses ranging up to 60 N mm-2. The results lead to the following conclusions: (i) the temperature of the Bordoni peak in silver single crystals is essentially independent of the orientation; (ii) the temperature of the Bordoni peak in silver single crystals decreases as the prior deformation is increased up to resolved shear stress near 28 N mm-2, and then increases for higher prior stresses, (iii) the Bordoni peak height decreases as the frequency increases and (iv) the Bordoni peak height increases with increasing the amount of deformation.