spear-like martensite thermally formed in the same alloy in several respects such as in shape, lattice invariant shear, habit plane and orientation relationship, even though both have the same crystal structure and lattice parameters. The lattice invariant strain of the martensite was found to be stacking faults on the basal plane, and a defectless region was observed at the middle of the marte...

The present study used a hydrothermal technique to synthesize undoped and Mn 2+ doped CdS/Zn 3 (PO 4 ) 2 semiconducting nanocomposite materials. Powder X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectrometer, Fourier transform- Infrared Spectroscopy-FT-IR, and photoluminescence techniques were employed to study structural, optical, and luminescence propertie...