Single crystals of rutile, grown by the Verneuil method, were chemically thinned and examined by electron transmission microscopy. The density and distribution of dislocations agreed with that expected from etch pit data. This density was at least two orders of magnitude below that for rutile films formed by oxidizing titanium carbide. The etching of dislocations and stacking faults was described. Some preliminary results of high-temperature studies in the microscope were reported. These include the discovery of a hitherto unknown slip system, {001}<100>.

Dislocations and Stacking Faults in Rutile Crystals Grown by Flame-Fusion Methods. Barber, D.J., Farabaugh, E.N.: Journal of Applied Physics, 1965, 36[9], 2803-6