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Defects are generally categorized point, line, area or volume defects<br />
depending on their spatial characteristics. Some examples <strong>of</strong> each type are shown in<br />
Figure 1.7 [30].<br />
Figure 1.7 A pictorial representation <strong>of</strong> various types <strong>of</strong> point, line, area <strong>and</strong> volume<br />
defects: (a) foreign interstitial; (b) dislocation; (c) self-interstitial; (d)<br />
precipitate; (e) extrinsic stacking fault <strong>and</strong> partial dislocation; (f) foreign<br />
substitutional; (g) vacancy; (h) intrinsic stacking fault surrounded <strong>by</strong> a<br />
partial dislocation; (i) foreign substitutional [30].<br />
Examples <strong>of</strong> point defects are self-interstitials, vacancies <strong>and</strong> foreign<br />
substitutions or interstitial atoms [(c), (g), (1), (f), <strong>and</strong> (a) above, respectively].<br />
Vacancies, interstitials <strong>and</strong> vacancy-interstitial pairs can be easily introduced during<br />
crystal growth. The most important factor controlling the grown-in point defect <strong>and</strong><br />
micro-defect is the ratio γ/G [31, 32], where, γ is the pulling rate <strong>and</strong> G is the nearsurface<br />
axial temperature gradient. On further cooling, supersaturated vacancies<br />
(interstitials) may agglomerate into D-void-defects (A/B-swirl-defects), which are