摘要

A micro-crack in silicon was experimentally investigated using high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). The crystal lattice structure of a micro-crack was carefully observed at a HRTEM image scale of approximately 18 nm. The crystal lattice structure of the crack tip region was observed to be regular with good periodicity. The HRTEM images of the micro-crack demonstrate that the microcrack cleavage expands along two crystal planes, where the principal cleavage plane is the (111) crystal plane.