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Publication
Physical Review Letters
Paper
Interaction of Dislocations on Crossed Glide Planes in a Strained Epitaxial Layer
Abstract
The full three-dimensional Peach-Koehler formalism is implemented numerically and used to investigate encounters between threading and misfit dislocations in a strained epitaxial layer. The possible outcomes of such interactions are found to include blocking, binding, repulsive passage, and attractive instabilities. We show that blocking is a weak effect, and that the peculiar substrate pileup structures previously attributed to a “modified Frank-Read mechanism” are actually a natural consequence of having sources operating on intersecting glide planes. © 1997 The American Physical Society.