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semivacancy

noun

Etymology

From semi- + vacancy.

  1. borrowed from vacantia
  2. prefixed as semivacancy — “semi + vacancy”

Definitions

  1. A vacancy defect in which two adjacent lattice sites are unoccupied and an atom occupies…

    A vacancy defect in which two adjacent lattice sites are unoccupied and an atom occupies the interstitial site between the two vacant sites.

    • The semivacancies are separated by a variable number of Ge adatoms in metastable T₄ positions and can diffuse or eventually merge back into a single vacancy.
    • In the undistorted configurations both a divacancy and a semivacancy pair belong to the symmetry point group D3d .

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