Structure of Amorphous Semiconductors

  • R. Grigorovici
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Abstract

When a few decades ago solid state physics emerged as a discipline in its own right it centered its interest on crystals. Among the different reasons one certainly was that crystallography offered the physicist a ready-made formalism describing the symmetry properties of periodic crystal lattices. Only the glasses presented too much technical interest to be completely pushed aside.

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Interatomic Distance Radial Distribution Function Amorphous Semiconductor Atomic Scattering Factor Stagger Configuration 
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  • R. Grigorovici
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  1. 1.Institute of Physics of the Roumanian Academy of SciencesBucharestRomania

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