Body-centred cubic (bcc) metals exhibit a distinct plastic response arising from the motion and interaction of dislocations, line defects whose behaviour departs markedly from that in close-packed ...

IntroductionBased on higher mathematics, including differential and integral calculus, I will be publishing a series of ...

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, ...

Settling a half century of debate, researchers have discovered that tiny linear defects can propagate through a material faster than sound waves do. These linear defects, or dislocations, are what ...

Figure 1: A 3D view of a network of dislocations in silicon obtained by Hänschke and colleagues [1] by using a new combination of experimental techniques and numerical simulations. These dislocations ...