Dislocations in Solids - Volume 13

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.

This title examines: influence of dislocations on piezoelectric behavior; and new mechanisms for hardening in twinned crystals.

Bringing theories of martensite transformation into agreement, it also covers atomic scale motion of dislocations in electron microscopy; dislocation patterns deduced from X-ray diffraction; role of dislocations in friction; and, dislocation motion in quasicrystals.