Nucleation of Dislocations Accompanying Electric Breakdown in LiF Crystals
- 1 February 1958
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 29 (2), 120-127
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1723052
Abstract
``Dislocation Lichtenberg figures'' have been discovered on the surfaces of LiF crystals subjected to high inhomogeneous electric fields. The figures consist of thousands of dislocation loops arranged along [100] dendritic branches which are terminated by [110] branches. Etching is necessary to reveal the figures. It is shown that electric fields can nucleate dislocations in LiF crystals.Keywords
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