Research Article

Material Removal Mechanism and Evolution of Subsurface Defects during Nanocutting of Monocrystalline Cu

Figure 11

The annihilation process of the prismatic dislocation loop at the cutting distance of (k) 15 nm, (l) 15.2 nm, (m) 15.4 nm, (n) 15.8 nm, (o) 16 nm, and (p) 18 nm (the order number of a subgraph is continuous with that in Figure 10).
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