For nearly a century, scientists have understood how crystalline materials—such as metals and semiconductors—bend without breaking. Their secret lies in tiny, line-like defects called dislocations, ...

· The Mixed dislocations is the most general type of unit dislocation and has an arbitrary angle between its line vector and Burgers vector. b is a constant of the dislocation. · The dislocation line ...

· The creation of an Edge dislocation via slip is illustrated below. · The ideal crystal is cut over the plane ADEF, and the material above this plane is displaced by b with respect to the material ...