In geometry and crystallography, a Bravais lattice, named after Auguste Bravais (1850), is an infinite array of discrete points generated by a set of discrete...
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Crystal system (redirect from Bravais law)
a factor 48. The Bravais lattices were studied by Moritz Ludwig Frankenheim in 1842, who found that there were 15 Bravais lattices. This was corrected...
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Hexagonal crystal family (redirect from Rhombohedral lattice)
not a Bravais lattice, as there are two nonequivalent sets of lattice points. Instead, it can be constructed from the hexagonal Bravais lattice by using...
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Miller index (redirect from Bravais-Miller indices)
crystallography for lattice planes in crystal (Bravais) lattices. In particular, a family of lattice planes of a given (direct) Bravais lattice is determined...
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Crystal structure (redirect from Crystal lattice)
of the Bravais lattice. The lengths of principal axes/edges, of the unit cell and angles between them are lattice constants, also called lattice parameters...
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Cubic crystal system (redirect from FCC lattice)
cubic Bravais lattice, which is not necessarily close-packed when a motif is set onto the lattice points. E.g. the diamond and the zincblende lattices are...
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in physical space, such as a crystal system (usually a Bravais lattice). The reciprocal lattice exists in the mathematical space of spatial frequencies...
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Monoclinic crystal system (section Bravais lattices)
Two monoclinic Bravais lattices exist: the primitive monoclinic and the base-centered monoclinic. For the base-centered monoclinic lattice, the primitive...
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hexagonal lattice (sometimes called triangular lattice) is one of the five two-dimensional Bravais lattice types. The symmetry category of the lattice is wallpaper...
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Orthorhombic crystal system (section Bravais lattices)
intersect at 90° angles, so the three lattice vectors remain mutually orthogonal. There are four orthorhombic Bravais lattices: primitive orthorhombic, base-centered...
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Bravais lattices are represented using conventional primitive cells, as shown below. The other seven Bravais lattices (known as the centered lattices)...
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Tetragonal crystal system (section Bravais lattices)
examples. There is only one tetragonal Bravais lattice in two dimensions: the square lattice. Bravais lattices Crystal system Crystal structure Point...
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work in crystallography, the conception of Bravais lattices, and the formulation of Bravais law. Bravais also studied magnetism, the northern lights...
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periodicity as the Bravais lattice, i.e. f ( r ) = f ( R + r ) {\displaystyle f(\mathbf {r} )=f(\mathbf {R} +\mathbf {r} )} for any lattice vector R {\displaystyle...
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Brillouin zone (redirect from Reciprocal lattice primitive cell)
space. In the same way the Bravais lattice is divided up into Wigner–Seitz cells in the real lattice, the reciprocal lattice is broken up into Brillouin...
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rank 3, called the Bravais lattice (so named after French physicist Auguste Bravais). There are 14 possible types of Bravais lattice. The quotient of the...
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image in the imaginary axis. The 14 lattice types in 3D are called Bravais lattices. They are characterized by their space group. 3D patterns with translational...
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Wigner–Seitz cell (redirect from Primitive lattice vector)
Bravais lattice. For example, the cube, truncated octahedron, and rhombic dodecahedron have point symmetry Oh, since the respective Bravais lattices used...
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operation. The black-white Bravais lattices characterize the translational symmetry of the structure like the typical Bravais lattices, but also contain additional...
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In fact, even within a given crystal system, the composition and Bravais lattice diversifies the number of independent slip systems (see the table below)...
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specify the Bravais lattice, and more specifically, the lower-case letter specifies the crystal family, while the upper-case letter the lattice type. The...
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noted, giving a complete crystallographic space group. These are the Bravais lattices in three dimensions: P primitive I body centered (from the German Innenzentriert)...
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calculation Bethe lattice, a regular infinite tree structure used in statistical mechanics Bravais lattice, a repetitive arrangement of atoms Lattice C, a compiler...
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crystallography, a lattice plane of a given Bravais lattice is any plane containing at least three noncollinear Bravais lattice points. Equivalently, a lattice plane...
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point boiling-point elevation Boltzmann constant boson Boyle's law Bravais lattice Brayton cycle break-even analysis Brewster's angle brittleness A physical...
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unchanged within a closed system. Bravais lattice In geometry and crystallography, a Bravais lattice, named after Auguste Bravais (1850), is an infinite array...
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crystal with the given crystal structure. KCl has a face-centered cubic Bravais lattice. However, the K+ and the Cl− ion have the same number of electrons...
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Olivine's crystal structure incorporates aspects of the orthorhombic P Bravais lattice, which arise from each silica (SiO4) unit being joined by metal divalent...
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Close-packing of equal spheres (redirect from Close packed lattice)
arrangement of congruent spheres in an infinite, regular arrangement (or lattice). Carl Friedrich Gauss proved that the highest average density – that is...
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the tiles in a tiling of space by parallelohedra form a Bravais lattice, and every Bravais lattice can be formed in this way. Adjusting the lengths of parallel...
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