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Hyperfine and Superhyperfine Tensors as Probes of the Local Environment of Deep-Level Defect Centers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Michael Cook
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, Geo-Centers Inc., Ft. Washington, MD 20744
C.T. White
Affiliation:
Theoretical Chemistry Section, Code 6119, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375
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Point defects occur in every solid material. No crystalline lattice is perfect, and no amorphous network has only unbroken sequences of bonds. Every material contains a greater or smaller number of vacancies, interstitials, substitutional atoms, and broken bonds. Many of these have only minor effects on the behavior of the material, but in a surprisingly large number of cases, point defects can have significant and even decisive effects on material performance. This can be true even when the defects are present in very small concentrations.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1991

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