Surface Defects in Crystals: 3 Types | Metallurgy
The following points highlight the three main surface defects in crystals. The types are: 1. Free Surfaces 2. Grain Boundaries 3. Stacking Faults. Surface defects are defects of two dimensional nature in the mathematical sense (that is, they have two dimensions). These are areas of distortions that lie about a surface, having a thickness of a few atomic diameters (that [...]