Simulating Epitaxial Textures

Abstract

The way of calculating the texture of a polycrystalline deposit over a polycrystalline substrate is considered in this paper. The proposed procedure consists in taking into account the epitaxial relationships and in defining some kind of selection rules according to the assumed crystallographic surface state of the substrate. To illustrate the interest of such a procedure, textures are calculated under various conditions and compared with ‘experimental’ textures for electrodeposited zinc deposits over steel sheets.