Fig. 6
From: On the three-dimensional spatial correlations of curved dislocation systems
Out of plane behavior of the self-correlation calculated at 0.3% plastic strain and a convolution length of 162 nm. The first two columns show the behavior for separation distances in planes normal to the slip plane. Columns 3–7 show slices parallel to the slip plane at the indicated values of Δrn. Taken together, they show that the correlation function is largely relevant only on the slip plane itself, seeing slight anti-correlations for small out-of-plane separation vectors, and rapidly decaying to an uncorrelated state as Δrn>L (the convolution length). Again, the intersection of the averaging volume with the viewing plane is shown in order to identify features which seem to be influenced by this boundary