It was noted that a discrepancy appeared when the region of homogeneity was predicted by assuming that the main intrinsic point defects were Frenkel pairs. The discrepancy was attributed to the presence of anti-structural defects, and the formation energy was estimated to be 5.56eV.

O Vozmozhnosti Sushchestvovaniya Antistrukturnykh Defektov v Nelegirovannom Telluride Kadmiya. V.N.Martynov, S.P.Kobeleva: Kristallografiya, 1983, 28[2], 394