A displacement in addition to that of the half lattice period was found to exist at the antiphase boundary of Gd
2(MoO
4)
3 by means of electron microscopy. The displacement depends on orientation of the antiphase boundary, but is nearly in the
a direction for the boundaries of all orientations except when it is in the
b direction for the boundary parallel to the
a axis. The displacement gives dilatation of the lattice at the boundary. These facts suggest that the antiphase boundaries have a finite width and a structure alike that of the tetragonal high-temperature phase.
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