Dislocation Schematic (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Dislocation Schematic

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The light blue lines in this schematic illustrate a moving defect, or dislocation, in titanium. The interaction between the dislocation and an oxygen impurity (red atom) leads to the creation of additional dislocations, shown as dark blue lines.

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Image by Liang Qi

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