Dislocations can save lives. This stems from the fact that the one-dimensional defects in a metal play an important role when the material deforms: for example, when a car body panel crumples in an ...

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 ...

Building large-scale quantum technologies requires reliable ways to connect individual quantum bits (qubits) without ...

Many materials lose their useful properties as soon as their dimensions fall below a certain limit. This so-called size effect, the sources of which may be quite diverse, can be a road block for the ...

In the quest to optimize the efficiency of materials, attention is increasingly focused from the nanoscale to understanding how microscale defects, such as stacking faults and dislocations, affect the ...

AMES, Iowa – Materials engineers don’t like to see line defects in functional materials. The structural flaws along a one-dimensional line of atoms generally degrades performance of electrical ...

Illustration of an intense laser pulse hitting a diamond crystal from top right, driving elastic and plastic waves (curved lines) through the material. The laser pulse creates linear defects, known as ...

Illustration of an intense laser pulse hitting a diamond crystal from top right, driving elastic and plastic waves (curved lines) through the material. The laser pulse creates linear defects, known as ...

(Nanowerk News) Settling a half century of debate, researchers have discovered that tiny linear defects can propagate through a material faster than sound waves do. Dislocations in materials can ...