Visualization of dislocation dynamics in colloidal crystals

Science

Volumn 305, Issue 5692, 2004, Pages 1944-1948

  Schall, Peter ^a   Cohen, Itai ^a,b   Weitz, David A ^a,b   Spaepen, Frans ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SCANNING; TOPOLOGY; VECTORS;

COLLOIDAL CRYSTALS; DISLOCATION DENSITY; LASER DIFFRACTION MICROSCOPY; LATTICE RESISTANCE;

DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS);

CRYSTAL; PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; COLLOID; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LASER DIFFRACTION; LASER MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 4644359607     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1102186     Document Type: Article

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