Tuesday, 27 October 2015

What is Stacking Fault?

In crystallography, the defect that denotes the disordering of crystallographic planes is called Stacking Fault. It occurs mainly in closed packed crystal structure. Stacking Faults by themselves are two-dimensional. It is a planar defect.

References: http://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/def_en/kap_5/backbone/r5_4_1.html
                      http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0034-4885/33/1/307/pdf

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