Ceramic materials are polycrystalline solids that are made up of metal and non-metal
elements, and inorganic crystal grains with specific crystal structures are fundamental …

Dislocations in ionic solids are topological extended defects that modulate composition,
strain, and charge over multiple length scales. As such, they provide an extra degree of …

Defects are essential to engineering the properties of functional materials ranging from
semiconductors and superconductors to ferroics. Whereas point defects have been widely …

Oxide crystal ceramics are commonly hard and brittle, when they are bent they typically
fracture. Such mechanical response limits the use of these materials in emerging fields like …

The potential of dislocations (line defects) in ceramics may have been greatly underrated
until most recently. Promising proofs‐of‐concept have been demonstrated for dislocation …

Dislocations are usually expected to degrade electrical, thermal and optical functionality and
to tune mechanical properties of materials. Here, we demonstrate a general framework for …

Dislocations have been recently introduced as a novel tool to tailor the conductivity of
functional ceramics. However, tuning strategies suffer from poor insight into the structural …

Dislocations are 1D crystallographic line defects and are usually seen as detrimental to the
functional properties of classic semiconductors. It is shown here that this not necessarily …

Dislocation‐tuned functionality in ceramic oxides for potential versatile applications gains
increasing attention. As the widespread chemical doping suffers from poor temperature …

Dislocation‐tuned functional properties such as electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity,
and ferroelectric properties in oxides are attracting increasing research interest. A …