Ewing also researched into the crystalline structure of metals and, in 1903, was the first to propose that fatigue failures originated in microscopic defects or slip bands in materials.

The nanopockets, as Kopin calls them, help light escape the chip without being obstructed by microscopic defects in the chip's crystal structure.

It was cold and inert, and full of the same kind of microscopic defects as the first.

Nickel sulfide stones are uncommon, microscopic defects in glass, and may cause breakage.

This gamma LET has little relation to the attenuation rate of the beam, but it may have some correlation to the microscopic defects produced in the absorber.

The inspectors will look for microscopic defects that could lead to cracks in a heavy metal disk on the engine's forward fan.

A contributing factor to spatial variability appears to be microscopic defects on the surface of the wafer [ 6].

The flux lattice, scientists believe, must be "pinned" to the superconducting object that produces it, and the "pins" are actually microscopic defects in the crystalline structure of the superconductor.

Some dies were removed when even a microscopic defect is observed, while others were used until they literally broke into pieces.

Work hardening creates microscopic defects in the metal, which resist further changes of shape.