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Past exam of the materials science course of the University of Cambridge 2016 Paper 1 2 b Solution by
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For an oxide ion, or an oxygen vacancy measured relative to the ideal lattice, the charge magnitude is . The independent-carrier Nernst-Einstein inversion at givesHere and must describe the same carrier convention. If the quoted diffusivity is a mobile-vacancy diffusivity, this is the vacancy density. If it is literally an oxygen-ion tracer diffusivity, it is an effective oxygen-ion density under an uncorrelated model. Vacancy density cannot be substituted for oxygen-ion density while retaining the same diffusivity. This distinction is consequential in the last part.
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