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The twin thickness saturated once a critical residual dislocations’ density reached the coherent twin-parent crystal boundary. [ 33 ] [ 49 ] Significant attention has been paid to the crystallography , [ 50 ] morphology [ 51 ] and macro mechanical effects [ 52 ] of deformation twinning.
A twin boundary is a defect that introduces a plane of mirror symmetry in the ordering of a crystal. For example, in cubic close-packed crystals, the stacking sequence of a twin boundary would be ABCABCBACBA. On planes of single crystals, steps between atomically flat terraces can also be regarded as planar defects.
Grain boundaries are two-dimensional defects in the crystal structure, and tend to decrease the electrical and thermal conductivity of the material. Most grain boundaries are preferred sites for the onset of corrosion [1] and for the precipitation of new phases from the solid. They are also important to many of the mechanisms of creep. [2]
On either side of this domain, the lattice is still perfect, and the boundaries of the domain are referred to as antiphase boundaries. [1] Crucially, crystals on either side of an antiphase boundary are related by a translation, rather than a reflection (a crystal twin ) or an inversion (an inversion domain ).
Coble creep, or grain-boundary diffusion, is the diffusion of vacancies occurs along grain-boundaries to elongate the grains along the stress axis. Coble creep has a stronger grain-size dependence than Nabarro–Herring creep, and occurs at lower temperatures while remaining temperature dependent.
As the partial dislocations repel, stacking fault is created in between. By nature of stacking fault being a defect, it has higher energy than that of a perfect crystal, so acts to attract the partial dislocations together again. When this attractive force balance the repulsive force described above, the defects are in equilibrium state. [4]
The terminology of a topological defect vs. a topological soliton, or even just a plain "soliton", varies according to the field of academic study. Thus, the hypothesized but unobserved magnetic monopole is a physical example of the abstract mathematical setting of a monopole ; much like the Skyrmion, it owes its stability to belonging to a non ...
In macroeconomics, the twin deficits hypothesis or the twin deficits phenomenon, [1] is the observation that, theoretically, there is a strong causal link between a nation's government budget balance and its current account balance.