Before revision: In materials science, the Burgers vector, named after Dutch physicist Jan Burgers, is a vector, often denoted as b , that represents the magnitude and direction of the lattice distortion resulting from a dislocation in a crystal lattice.Callister, William D. Jr. "Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering," John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Danvers, MA.
After revision: In materials science, the Burgers vector, named after Dutch physicist Jan Burgers, is a vector, often denoted as , that represents the magnitude and direction of the lattice distortion resulting from a dislocation in a crystal lattice.Callister, William D. Jr. "Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering," John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Danvers, MA.