EGE 214 Lecture 6 Defects and Imperfections in solids Point defects Two common types of point defects associated

with elemental solid are vacancy and interstitial. The vacancy is simply an unoccupied atom site in the perfect crystal structure while the interstitial site is an atom occupying an interstitial site not normally occupied by an atom in the perfect crystal structure. The shottky defect is a pair of oppositely charge ion vacancies. This pairing is required in order to maintain charge neutrality locally in the compounds crystal structure. The Frenke defect is a vacancy-intertitialcy combination. Point defects are structural imperfections resulting from thermal agitation.

Fig.1 Vacancy

Fig.2 Interstitialcy

Linear defect (Dislocation) Linear defect or dislocations are associated with mechanical deformation and are also known as dislocations. The linear defect is commonly designated by the inverted T symbol, which represents the edge of an extra half-plane of the atoms.

Fig.3

Edge dislocation

Fig.4

Screw dislocation