It was shown that a large variance of dislocation displacements found experimentally and the delay in its relaxation to a steady value in semiconductor materials could be explained by the stochastic nature of the dislocation-kink formation. This stochastic nature results in the development of dislocation-line roughness described by the scaling relations, including the mesoscopic time and space scales.

Mesoscopic Variance of Dislocation Displacements in Semiconductor Crystals. B.V.Petukhov: Semiconductors, 2010, 44[10], 1258-62