Dislocations are lines of irregularity in the structure of a solid analogous to the bumps in a badly laid carpet. Like these bumps they can be easily moved, and they provide the most important mechanism by which the solid can be deformed. They also have a strong influence on crystal growth and on the electronic properties of semiconductors.路 Influence of dislocations on piezoelectric behavior路 New mechanisms for hardening in twinned crystals路 Bringing theories of martensite transformation into agreement路 Atomic scale motion of dislocations in electron microscopy路 Dislocation patterns deduced from X-ray diffraction路 Role of dislocations in friction路 Dislocation motion in quasicrystals
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