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Dancing with an electric field

Nature Materials volume 22, pages 943–944 (2023)Cite this article

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An electric field is found to be capable of controlling dislocation movement in semiconducting zinc sulfide, as observed in real time by in situ transmission electron microscopy.

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Fig. 1: Observation of electric-field-driven dislocation motion in ZnS.

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Fang, X., Rödel, J. Dancing with an electric field. Nat. Mater. 22, 943–944 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01614-0

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