Stacking Faults and Stacking Fault Energy
A stacking fault is an irregularity in the planar stacking sequence of atoms in a crystal – in FCC metals the normal stacking sequence is ABCABC etc., but if a stacking fault is introduced it may change to ABCBA.
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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