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THE structures of many compounds and alloys have been shown to be essentially super-lattices on a few basic lattices. Interest in the diamond structure in particular has been stimulated recently by the technological importance of semiconductors. The best known semiconductors—germanium and silicon—have the diamond structure and many semiconducting compounds of interest have the closely related structures of zinc blende and chalcopyrite. Some work1 has been done recently in an attempt to list the possible super-lattices of the cubic lattices, but the diamond structure has not yet been considered. The aim of this communication is to introduce a new line of attack on this problem of super-lattices.
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PAMPLIN, B. Super-Cell Structure of Semiconductors. Nature 188, 136–137 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/188136a0
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