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Order and disorder in amorphous, tetrahedrally coordinated semiconductors A curved-space description

J. F. Sadoc Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud, Bat. 510, 91405, Orsay, Cedex, France
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R. Mosseri Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, CNRS, 1 place A. Briand, 92190, Meudon-Bellevue, France
Pages 467-483 | Received 25 May 1981, Accepted 15 Oct 1981, Published online: 01 Dec 2006

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