Interaction between a dislocation and various divalent impurities in KCl single crystals

The strain-rate cycling test during the Blaha effect measurement at 77–254 K was carried out for four kinds of single crystals: KCl doped with Mg²⁺, Ca₂₊, Sr²⁺ or Ba²⁺ as a weak obstacle. It was found that the critical temperature, at which the effective stress is zero, increases when the divalent ionic size approaches increasingly that of the K⁺ ion. Furthermore, the activation energy for the interaction between a dislocation and the divalent ion-vacancy dipole was determined. The activation energy increases with the divalent ionic size. Fleischer's model attributes this to the difference of tetragonality around the dipole for each specimen.