A brief history of dislocations in ceramics: From Steinsalz to quantum wires

TL;DR

This paper reviews the historical development and current challenges of dislocations in ceramics, highlighting their potential as tools for engineering functional ceramics.

Contribution

It offers a historical perspective and new insights into utilizing dislocations as engineering tools in ceramics, emphasizing recent advances.

Findings

Dislocations have a long history in ceramic research.

Current challenges include understanding dislocation behavior at the quantum level.

Dislocations can be used to engineer functional properties in ceramics.

Abstract

Dislocations in ceramics have enjoyed a long yet underappreciated research history. This brief historical overview and reflection on the current challenges provides new insights into using this line defect as a rediscovered tool for engineering functional ceramics.