Stacking faults on basal and prismatic {1¯2•0} planes in vapour-grown zinc oxide ribbon crystals were studied by transmission electron microscopy. Basal faults were shown to have the fault vector of ½c+p, whereas diffraction contrast experiments indicate that the ½c+3/2p fault vector normally associated with prismatic faults in the wurtzite structure was not a possible fault vector in this material. Atomistic considerations suggested a fault vector ½c+(1/√3)a.

Stacking Faults on Basal and Prismatic Planes in Zinc Oxide. Iwanaga, H., Suzuki, K., Takeuchi, S.: Philosophical Magazine, 1976, 34[2], 291-8