Crystalline structures of developed silver formed on primitive tabular silver bromide emulsion crystals by exposure and partial development were studied electron microscopically. Especially, a high voltage (accelerating voltage, 1000 kV) electron microscope was used for the direct observations of the structures.
The developed silver was found to be classified morhologically into the following three different types;
Type I -One filamentary silver grew from a development center of several thousand angstroms in size. It oriented mainly to the ‹110› direction to the incident electron beam.
Type II-A filament grew from a smaller development center than that of type I (the center was less than 1000 Å in size). It oriented to the ‹211› or ‹110› directions.
Type III-Non-filamentous, platelet silver. First, a development center with a {111} plane was formed and then few specks with a {110} plane grew on it.
By using the high voltage electron microscope, the lattice imperfections in developed silver such as stacking faults were observed clearly.
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