crystal defect classification point defects self-vacancy, self-interstitial interstitial interstitial and substitutional impurities point defect pairs, clusters line defects dislocations planar defects grain boundaries, surfaces
point defects vacancies & interstitials substitutional & inter- stitial impurities
Schottky defect
edge and screw disocations
Burgers vector of edge dislocation
Burgers vector of screw dislocation
Burgers vector example in bcc lattice
stacking faults of (111) planes in fcc lattice intrinsic extrinsic
low-angle pure tilt boundary in Ge
high-resolution TEM of large-angle (~24 o ) tilt-type grain boundary in Au film
strain field and strain energy of dislocations
interaction of edge dislocations
soap bubble model of grain boundary
slip of edge dislocation
self-diffusion in Ag bulk and grain boundary
diffusivities D in bulk vs thin films
combined grain boundary and bulk diffusion
Ga diffusion through polycristalline Al
electromigration
electromigration processes
Material Today January 2005
dislocation loop in {111} plane changes band gap
defect engineered light emitting diode
Dislocation Engineered Light Emitting Diode (DELED)