In the class, we learned that the energy cost of creating a vacancy in a crystal (_v) is balanced by the increase in configurational entropy. However, the amount of entropy gained by placing a single

In the class, we learned that the energy cost of creating a vacancy in a crystal (_v) is balanced by the increase in configurational entropy. However, the amount of entropy gained by placing a single vacancy in the crystal increases with the number of atomic sites in the crystal. Therefore, there may be a minimum number of atomic sites (N) that are needed to create […]