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Frenkel defect

crystallography

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cause of vacancy

In vacancy
In the Frenkel defect, an atom moves to a new position between other atoms of the solid. The empty space created by the migration of the atom is a vacancy. The relative numbers of these two types of defects vary from crystal to crystal. See also colour…
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crystal defects

In crystal defect
The Frenkel defect involves a single ion, which is displaced from its normal lattice point and shifts to a nearby interstice, or space, between atoms in the lattice. In the Schottky defect, two ions of opposite sign leave the lattice. Impurity defects are foreign atoms that…
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radiation damage in solids

In radiation: Crystal-lattice effects
…vacancy-interstitial pair is called a Frenkel defect.
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