Screw dislocation dipoles in niobium: combination of STM observations and atomistic simulations

Joel Bonneville (1) , Christophe Coupeau (1) , Joël Douin (2) , Roman Gröger (3, 4)

1 SIMAC - Surface, Interfaces et MAtériaux sous Contrainte [Institut Pprime]
2 CEMES-PPM - Physique de la Plasticité et Métallurgie
3 CEITEC MU - Central European Institute of Technology [Brno]
4 IPM / CAS - Institute of Physics of Materials of the Czech Academy of Sciences

We recently developed an experimental device that allows us to observe the slip traces under stress at the atomic scale. Here, we report experimental results obtained at the latter scale on Nb single crystals making it possible to observe dislocation dipoles (DD), which are evidenced by two slip traces formed by emerging moving dislocations of opposite Burgers vectors ending very close to each other. The geometry and stability of the DD were fully characterized in the framework of linear anisotropic elasticity theory and by atomistic simulations. This allows us to calculate a local opposite stress impeding dislocation motion of the dislocations of the dipole.

Mots clés: dislocation dipole STM BCC metals; dislocation dipole; STM; BCC metals

Domaines: Physique [physics]

Joel Bonneville, Christophe Coupeau, Joël Douin, Roman Gröger. Screw dislocation dipoles in niobium: combination of STM observations and atomistic simulations. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 2024, 32 (6), pp.065021. ⟨10.1088/1361-651X/ad60e8⟩. ⟨hal-04751246⟩