Defects screw dislocations

The second type of line defect is the screw dislocation, which is rather less easy to visualise. Consider, however, a block of material, half of which is sheared one interatomic distance with respect to the other half, as shown in Fig. 20.306. The line cdthen constitutes a screw dislocation the arrangement of atoms around a screw dislocation is shown in Fig. 20.30c. 

This type of volume defect in the crystal is known as a "screw dislocation", so-called because of its topography. Note that the spiral dislocation of the growing lattice deposits around the Une defect at right angles to the line defect. 

In the following diagram, given as 3.1.12. on the next page, amother representation is shown, detailing how the dislocation line (line defect) becomes a screw-dislocation. 

Dislocations Dislocations are stoichiometric line defects. A dislocation marks the boundary between the slipped and unslipped parts of crystal. The simplest type of dislocation is an edge dislocation, involving an extra layer of atoms in a crystal (Fig. 25.2). The atoms in the layers above and below the half-plane distort beyond its edge and are no longer planar. The direction of the edge of the half-plane into the crystal is know as the line of dislocation. Another form of dislocation, known as a screw dislocation, occurs when an extra step is formed at the surface of a crystal, causing a mismatch that extends spirally through the crystal. 

The electrocrystallization on an identical metal substrate is the slowest process of this type. Faster processes which are also much more frequent, are connected with ubiquitous defects in the crystal lattice, in particular with the screw dislocations (Fig. 5.25). As a result of the helical structure of the defect, a monoatomic step originates from the point where the new dislocation line intersects the surface of the crystal face. It can be seen in Fig. 5.48 that the wedge-shaped step gradually fills up during electrocrystallization after completion it slowly moves across the crystal face and winds up into a spiral. The resultant progressive spiral cannot disappear from the crystal surface and thus provides a sufficient number of growth... 

The anodic dissolution of metals on surfaces without defects occurs in the half-crystal positions. Similarly to nucleation, the dissolution of metals involves the formation of empty nuclei (atomic vacancies). Screw dislocations have the same significance. Dissolution often leads to the formation of continuous crystal faces with lower Miller indices on the metal. This process, termed facetting, forms the basis of metallographic etching. 

Dislocations are line defects that occur in crystals. There are many types of dislocation. The easiest to visualize are the edge dislocation, which consists of an extra half-plane of atoms inserted into a crystal and the screw dislocation that resembles... 

Edge dislocations play an important role in the strength of a metal, and screw dislocations are important in crystal growth. Dislocations also interact strongly with other defects in the crystal and can act as sources and sinks of point defects. 

The reflections include a particular g in which the dislocation is invisible (i.e., g b = 0 when b is normal to the reflecting plane). With these criteria in diffraction contrast, one can determine the character of the defect, e.g., screw (where b is parallel to the screw dislocation line or axis), edge (with b normal to the line), or partial (incomplete) dislocations. The dislocations are termed screw or edge, because in the former the displacement vector forms a helix and in the latter the circuit around the dislocation exhibits its most characteristic feature, the half-plane edge. By definition, a partial dislocation has a stacking fault on one side of it, and the fault is terminated by the dislocation (23-25). The nature of dislocations is important in understanding how defects form and grow at a catalyst surface, as well as their critical role in catalysis (3,4). 

The width of the image can be deduced using this simple idea of contrast being formed when the misorientation around the defect exceeds the perfect crystal reflecting range. We consider the case of a screw dislocation nmning normal to the Bragg planes, where the line direction / coincides with the diffraction vector g. The effective misorientation at distance r from the core is =bH r (8.41)... 

Extended defects are primarily composed of linear dislocations, shear planes, and intergrowth phenomena. Figure 4.1 A and B, for example, show two types of linear dislocation an edge dislocation and a screw dislocation. 

Figure 4J Examples of extended defects in crystals edge dislocation (A) and screw dislocation (B).

Dislocations. Screw dislocations are the most important defects when crystal growth is considered, since they produce steps on the crystal surface. These steps are crystal growth sites. Another type of dislocation of interest for metal deposition is the edge dislocation. Screw and edge dislocations are shown in Figure 3.4. 

Surface Defects, Dislocations that exist in the bulk of crystal can extend onto the surface. Dislocation density is defined as the number of dislocations that cut through a unit area. in metals is usually on the order of 10 cm . This dislocation density can be reduced by annealing. In a well-annealed crystal, is in the range 10 to 10 cm . Screw dislocation free surfaces (about 0.01 mm ) can be produced by... 

Figure 3.16. Some simple defects found on a low-index crystal face 1, the perfect flat face, a terrace 2, an emerging screw dislocation 3, the intersection of an edge dislocation with the terrace 4, an impurity adsorbed atom 5, a monatomic step in the surface, a ledge 6, a vacancy in the ledge 7, a kink, a step in the ledge 8 an adatom of the same type as the bulk atoms 9, a vacancy in the terrace 10, an adatom on the terrace. (From Ref. 12, with permission from Oxford University Press.)...

Figure 2.4. Definition of a displacement (Burgers or shear) vector b (a) a Burgers vector around a dislocation (defect) A in a perfect crystal there is a closure failure unless completed by b (b) a schematic diagram of a screw dislocation—segments of crystals displace or shear relative to each other (c) a three-dimensional view of edge dislocation DC formed by inserting an extra half-plane of atoms in ABCD (d) a schematic diagram of a stacking fault. (Cottrell 1971 reproduced by the courtesy of Arnold Publishers.)...

The second type of line defect, the screw dislocation, occurs when the Burger s vector is parallel to the dislocation line (OC in Figure 1.33). This type of defect is called a screw dislocation because the atomic structure that results is similar to a screw. The Burger s vector for a screw dislocation is constructed in the same fashion as with the edge dislocation. When a line defect has both an edge and screw dislocation... 

Figure 1.33 Representation of defect line (OC), Burger s circuit and Burger s vector in a screw dislocation. From Z. Jastrzebski, The Nature and Properties of Engineering Materials, 2nd ed. Copyright 1976 by John Wiley Sons, Inc. This material is used by permission of John Wiley Sons, Inc.

Further, however many uniform rows of adions are added to the surface, the step still remains on the ciystal surface all that happens is that its orientation to the surface changes. When the orientation of the step changes by one complete revolution (i.e., an angle of 2jt radians), the crystal has added on a new layer of atoms in its growth upward. Thus, as the crystal grows, the step rotates about the axis at X going through the crystal it winds like a screw (Fig. 7.151), which is why the type of defect has been described by Frank as a screw dislocation. 

Dislocations are line defects. They bound slipped areas in a crystal and their motion produces plastic deformation. They are characterized by two geometrical parameters 1) the elementary slip displacement vector b (Burgers vector) and 2) the unit vector that defines the direction of the dislocation line at some point in the crystal, s. Figures 3-1 and 3-2 show the two limiting cases of a dislocation. If b is perpendicular to s, the dislocation is named an edge dislocation. The screw dislocation has b parallel to v. Often one Finds mixed dislocations. Dislocation lines close upon themselves or they end at inner or outer surfaces of a solid. 

The interaction energy between a solute particle (impurity atom, point defect) and an edge dislocation (screw dislocations do not interact, to first order) is... 

---