Burgers vector

In materials science, the Burgers vector, named after Dutch physicist Jan Burgers, is a vector, often denoted as b, that represents the magnitude and direction of the lattice distortion resulting from a dislocation in a crystal lattice.[1]

  1. ^ Callister, William D. Jr. "Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering," John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Danvers, MA. (2005)/

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