Recent Advances in Defect Structure Characterization of Single-Crystalline Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Despite the often higher costs of obtaining products made of single-crystalline materials, they are widely used in modern aerospace, automotive, energy, and electronic industries. Unique properties characterize single crystals, distinguishing them from other materials. For example, single-crystalline alloys have much better strength parameters than their polycrystalline analogs. The properties of single-crystalline materials depend largely on the resulting microstructure of the final product, especially the defect structure. The defect structure—formed during crystallization and after potential subsequent processing, e.g., heat treatment—can be influenced by many factors: the production technology, the geometry of the final product, the types and amounts of dopants, and others. The need to produce single-crystalline composite materials with still new, extended, and better properties makes it necessary to study the defect structure for the development of existing crystal properties and the creation of new ones, as well as for modification of the production parameters.

The results presented in this Special Issue may create an interesting collection of papers on different aspects of production, processing, and properties of single-crystalline composition materials. This Special Issue of Crystals, entitled “Recent Advances in Defect Structure Characterization of Single-Crystalline Materials,” may report the novelties in the production and application of various single-crystalline materials, including superalloys, single-crystal semiconductors, etc., and new testing methods, summarizing the progress achieved in recent years. This forthcoming Special Issue will focus on the recent innovative and pioneering field of single-crystalline composite materials, their production and study, and the development of crystallization and research methods.

Dr. Jacek Krawczyk
Prof. Dr. Jan Sieniawski
Dr. Robert Paszkowski
Guest Editors

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• single crystals
• composites
• superalloys
• crystallization
• structural defects
• growth defects
• testing methods