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Silicon and germanium are completely miscible over the entire composition range and give rise to alloy that retains the diamond-type crystal structure. The lattice constant of Si x Ge1-x alloy at room temperature can be written, from Vegard’s law, as
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Adachi, S. (1999). Silicon-Germanium Alloy (SixGe1-x). In: Optical Constants of Crystalline and Amorphous Semiconductors. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5247-5_9
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