Transmission electron microscopy was used to study dislocations which dissociated according to:

(a/2)[110] → (a/6)[211] + (a/6)[121]

during deformation at room temperature. The effect of thin-foil surfaces upon the dissociation equilibrium was suggested to be the cause of a scatter in the (a/6)[211]-type stacking-fault energy values found in the literature.

A.Orlova, J.P.Rivière, J.Castaing: Revue de Physique Appliquée, 1985, 20[7], 449-55