Abstract: | A procedure to measure local variations in lattice distortions based on the shrink and enlarge effect of contours, observed on topographs taken by X-ray double crystal reflection technique has been proposed and applied in the study of CdTe crystals. A domination of the orientational component of distortions has been established, reaching to hundreds of arcsec for points at a distance of 1 cm. The variation in spacings Δd/d does not exceed hundredths of a per cent. |