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Transition-Metal Defects in Silicon

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The silicon (Si) crystal has the diamond structure, in which each Si atom is placed at the centre of a tetrahedron consisting of its four nearest neighbours. In doing this, Si creates a face-centered cubic lattice (fcc) with its two basis atoms located at the origin (0,0,0) and at one quarter length along the diagonal [111] direction.

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