monopnictide

English

Etymology

From mono- +‎ pnictide.

Noun

monopnictide (plural monopnictides)

1. (chemistry) Any pnictide that has a single pnictogen atom per molecule or unit cell.
   • 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^[1]:

     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..