monopnictide

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noun

Any pnictide that has a single pnictogen atom per molecule or unit cell.

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Meanings

nounmonopnictide (plural monopnictides)

plural monopnictides

  1. chemistryAny pnictide that has a single pnictogen atom per molecule or unit cell.

    Unlike the other members of the non-centrosymmetric monopnictides, TaAs is the first Weyl semimetal candidate with the Fermi energy suffciently close to both types of Weyl points to generate chiral quasiparticles at the Fermi surface..

    2016, Frank Arnold, Marcel Naumann, Shu-Chun Wu, Yan Sun, Marcus Schmidt, Horst Borrmann, Claudia Felser, Binghai Yan, Elena Hassinger, “Chiral Quasiparticles at the Fermi Surface of the Weyl Semimetal TaAs”, in arXiv

Origin

From mono- + pnictide.

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