Abstract
It is argued that the "microtwins model" for the intermediate phase of quartz, which has been proposed on the basis of electron microscope observations [for example, Phys. Rev. B 31, 2986 (1985], does not fit our x-ray observations, particularly the satellite reflections which depend on (reflection) and (modulation) vectors. The behavior in more than 20 Laue spots is well explained by the model of "the configuration waves" which are primarily transverse.
- Received 14 June 1985
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.34.2001
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