The diagram shows the effect of 'sliding' an Edge (a), Screw (b), or Mixed (c) dislocation completely across a slip plane in the crystal. Each dislocation has the same effect as it moves completely ...

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 ...