This size is known as the Burgers vector, b, of the dislocation and is shown in blue on the diagram. The Line direction (red) of each dislocation is shown. For an Edge dislocation, the Burgers vector ...

For both jogs and kinks the Burgers vector and line vector are those of the dislocation, the line vector being along the direction of the jog or the kink. These features may therefore be of a ...