Engineering Materials and Metallurgy: Unit 0: Review of Crystal Physics

Classification of Crystal Imperfections (or Defects)

Crystal Physics

Crystalline imperfections can be classified on the basis of their geometry as follows:

Classification of Crystal Imperfections (or Defects) 

Crystalline imperfections can be classified on the basis of their geometry as follows:

1. Point Defects

(a) Vacancies

(i) Schottky defect

(b) Interstitials

(i) Frenkel defect

(c) Impurities

(i) Substitutional impurity

(ii) Interstitial impurity

(d) Electronic defects

2. Line Defects

(a) Edge dislocation

(b) Screw dislocation

3. Surface (or planar) Defects 

(a) Grain boundaries

(b) Tilt or twist boundaries 

(c) Twin boundaries

(d) Stacking faults

4. Volume (or bulk) Defects

(a) Cracks

Now we shall discuss the above crystal imperfections, in detail, in the following sections.

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