Laue photograph, each spot corresponds to the reflection from a specific lattice

plane. When a single crystal is exposed to the X-ray beam of a Laue camera, a finite
number of spots is obtained with a pattern on the film characteristic of the crystal and
its orientation. If a Laue beam straddles the boundary between two crystals, a double
pattern of spots is observed, each characteristic of the orientation of its respective crystal.
Furthermore, if the two crystals have nearly identical orientations, as is the case
when the boundary is a low-angle boundary or low-energy dislocation structure (i.e.,
LEDS; see Sec. 6.6), the two patterns will almost coincide, and the photograph will show
a set of closely spaced double spots. Finally, if the X-ray beam falls on a number of very
small crystalline areas, each separated from its neighbors by LEDS, a pattern such as that
in Fig. 8.9B can be expected. Evidently, when a bent crystal is annealed, the curved crystal
breaks up into a number of closely related small perfect crystal segments. This process
has been given the name polygonization.6