Publisher's Synopsis
It was fashionable at one time to say that, while dislocations were pleasant playthings for physicists and could explain some long-established technological observations, their study did not contribute to the advance of technology and the economy. The chapters in Volume 8 remind us that a knowledge of esoteric topics, such as interfacial dislocations and the detailed structure of the cores of dislocations in unusual crystal structures, has been essential in the development of semiconductor devices and of superalloys.
