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Glissile dislocations with transient cores in silicon

Laurent Pizzagalli
Julien Godet
Sandrine Brochard

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We report an unexpected characteristic of dislocation cores in silicon. Using first-principles calculations, we show that all the stable core configurations for a non-dissociated 60$^\circ$ dislocation are sessile. The only glissile configuration, previously obtained by nucleation from surfaces, surprinsingly corresponds to an unstable core. As a result, the 60$^\circ$ dislocation motion is solely driven by stress, with no thermal activation. We predict that this original feature could be relevant in situations for which large stresses occur, such as mechanical deformation at room temperature. Our work also suggests that post-mortem observations of stable dislocations could be misleading, and that mobile unstable dislocation cores should be taken into account in theoretical investigations.
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hal-00418686 , version 1 (21-09-2009)

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Laurent Pizzagalli, Julien Godet, Sandrine Brochard. Glissile dislocations with transient cores in silicon. Physical Review Letters, 2009, 103, pp.065505. ⟨hal-00418686⟩

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