“…Dislocation densities have been measured employing the etch pit method (T. Hasegawa, R. Hasegawa, & Karashima, 1970), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) (Ham, 1961), scanning electron microscopy (Kamaladasa & Picard, 2010), X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis (Shintani & Murata, 2011), and the stress or strain rate change test (SCH) (Yoshinaga, Matsuo, & Kurishita, 1984). However, it is not unusual that the differences among the dislocation densities of the same specimen measured employing the different methods are more than an order of magnitude (Hayakawa et al, 2007a;Umezaki, Murata, Nomura, & Kubushiro, 2014;Roodposhti, Sarkar, Murty, & Scattergood, 2015). This suggests the importance of not only selecting an appropriate method for a given specimen but also of considering the physical meanings of the observed values (Yoshinaga, Horita, & Kurishita, 1981;Pesicka, Kuzel, Dronhofer, & Eggeler, 2003).…”