The development of rail defects can be influenced in modern steel through an extensive maintenance program that will prolong the timeframe before the rail is subjected to the affects …

A brief review of these three projects and their associated defects and failures will enable us to identify some relevant observations, practical conclusions and lessons learned with respect to …

copic grain boundaries have become increasingly significant. These imperfections can disrupt electrical, optical, and thermal properties by introducing localized states, scattering centers, …

Real crystals are never perfect: there are always defects! Controlling the defects is one of the main goal of materials science and engineering! The properties of materials are profoundly …

Semiconductor technology is, to a large ex-tent, the art of defect engineering. Today, defect control is often done at the atomic level. Theory has played a critical role in understanding, …

Imperfections or defects: Any deviation from the perfect atomic arrangement in a crystal is said to contain imperfections or defects. In fact, using the term “defect” is sort of a misnomer since …

Our focus: point and line defects, their interaction, and with other higher dimensional defects Material properties governed by defects electronic and transport properties