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Equilibrium Unstable Point Defects in Solids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1992

V.M. Koshkin*
Affiliation:
Polytechn. Inst., Department of Phys. Chem., Frunze str. 21, 310002, Kharkov, Ukraine
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Abstract

It is shown that in addition to Frenkel’s and Schottky’s defects there is another type of equilibrium defects, such as an unstable pairs (UP) : vacancy and interstitial atom. UP has the life time of the order of 10-1010-12s, independent of temperature. The review of the unstable pairs physics is presented. Numerous experimental evidences of equilibrium UP in semiconductors, insulators, especially in superionic crystals, and metals are discussed.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1993

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