This can be done by creating a dislocation loop in the material.
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At the end, both point defects and dislocation loops remain.
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They perturbed the silicon itself, put in these dislocation loops and forced the electrons to emit light.
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At large areal island densities ( smaller spacing ), curvature effects from neighboring clusters will cause dislocation loops to form leading to defected island creation.
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And the dislocation does not bend past the semicircular equilibrium state, it will not form a dislocation loop and instead revert to its original state.
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When a voltage was applied at room temperature to the crystal produced by Homewood's group, charges were prevented from moving by these rings, which are called dislocation loops.
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Provided that the area directly above the dislocation loop is defect-free ( no non-radiative recombination possible ), the electrons will fall back into the valence shell by radiative recombination, thus emitting light.
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The process results in a dislocation loop around A and B in the slip plane which expands under continued shear stress, and also in a new dislocation line between A and B which, under renewed or continued shear, can continue to generate dislocation loops in the manner just described.
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The process results in a dislocation loop around A and B in the slip plane which expands under continued shear stress, and also in a new dislocation line between A and B which, under renewed or continued shear, can continue to generate dislocation loops in the manner just described.