Diffraction image of screw dislocations in X-ray section topography methods

s X-ray diffraction patterns in a thin crystal are investigated by numerical simulation and experimental section topography for the case when the screw dislocation axis is parallel to the dislocation vector. The strongly distorted region near the dislocation core is found to operate like an X-ray mirror wheninteracting with an X-ray wave field in a scattering triangle; i.e., new wave fields appear in the new scattering triangles in the strong distortion region where the crystal departs from the reflecting position, and the coherent interaction of the new fields with the old leads to the formation of a complex X-ray image. Superposition of these waves, taking into account their phases, is found to result in a large variety of defect images.