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The structural stability of ordered AB alloys on the diamond lattice is discussed from the point of view of the competition between bond-angle and heterogeneous bond-length constraints. An infinite number of layered structures are favored in the absence of applied strain. With uniaxial strain a special ordered structure, consistent with recent electron diffraction measurements, is stabilized.
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P. B. Littlewood (1986) studied this question.
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