# 3. Point Defects and Diffusion

## 3.1 Diffusion Primer

### 3.1.1 Diffusion and Point Defects

### 3.1.2 Recapitulation of Ficks Laws and Random Walk

### 3.1.3 Coupling Phenomenological Laws to Single Atomic Jumps

### 3.1.2 Essentials to Chapter 3.1: Diffusion Primer

## 3.2 Diffusion Mechanism

### 3.2.1 Atomic Mechanisms

### 3.2.2 Self-Diffusion

### 3.2.3 Diffusion of Impurity Atoms

### 3.2.4 Essentials to Chapter 3.2 Diffusion Mechanisms

## 3.3 Experimental Approaches to Diffusion Phenomena

### 3.3.1 Determination of Diffusion Profiles

### 3.3.2 Essentials to Chapter 3.3 Experimental Approaches to Diffusion Phenomena

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