Parker-Washburn boundary

Parker-Washburn boundary

[′pär·kər ′wäsh·bərn ‚bau̇n·drē]

(solid-state physics)

A surface which separates two regions in a solid in which the crystal axes point in different directions, and which is made up of a single array of dislocations.

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