Questions tagged [crystallography]
Questions concerning crystallography, the science of determining the arrangement of atoms in crystalline solids.
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Have Finite Difference Time Domain methods made inroads into dynamical simulation of electron and/or X-ray scattering by crystals?
I'm afraid this question might be too basic or too naive or both, but here goes!
For optical diffraction by periodic nano-structures (gratings, semiconductor manufacturing metrology) the rigorous ...
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How to convert lab frame quaternions and plane normal to misorientation quaternion and crystal plane normal for grain boundaries?
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Let qA and qB represent unit, orientation quaternions of grain A and grain B of a grain boundary in the lab reference frame, respectively. Let qm be the misorientation quaternion of qA and ...
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What does capital sigma followed by an integer (Σn) mean in the context of grain boundaries?
I've just run across a nomenclature for coincidence lattices at grain boundaries which uses a capital greek letter sigma followed by an integer. For example Grain Boundary Engineering &
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How to calculate the orthogonal representation of a HCP cell?
I'm trying to write a program to calculate the neighbor lists of crystal systems. I found a few codes that are able to calculate it for orthogonal systems. How can I do it for non-orthogonal cells ?
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CuO (monoclinic) crystallographic plane and their relaxed surface energy
I want to calculate wulff construction for CuO of space group C2/c. Can any one help me with its crystallographic plane/Miller indices and their corresponding relaxed surface energy? If you can ...
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Get fractional coordinates from special Wyckoff positions
I'm trying to get the fractional coordinates for Mo and S, for MoS$_2$-2H, where 2H means the phase. MoS$_2$-2H is a bilayer, in which each layer is separated from each other by Van der Waals forces. ...
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Symmetry of glide planes
I am trying to understand the symmetry elements of space group number 194 (P$6_3$/mmc), which is hexagonal and has 24 symmetry operations.
In the table of symmetry operations it says that it has three ...
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Does the Mermin-Wagner theorem influence the stability of graphene?
Prior to the discovery of graphene, the Mermin-Wagner theorem was used to argue that purely two-dimensional materials would not be stable as two-dimensional order would show logarithmic divergences at ...
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Is the number of possible Bravais lattices a mathematical fact?
Almost anyone that has taken a Solid State Physics course will know, that any 3D crystal must be in one of the 14 Bravais lattices due to symmetry operations and space filling.
In 2015, a paper was ...
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Labeling of high symmetry points in Brillouin zone
A Brillouin zone is defined as a Wigner~Secitz primitive cell in the reciprocal lattice [1,2].
The construction of the first Brillouin zone for two different 2D lattices are shown below:
The ...
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Overview of how self-consistent dynamical low-energy electron diffraction simulations are performed
A technique for deducing arrangements of atoms on crystal surfaces is Low Energy Electron Diffraction or LEED.
For a flat crystal surface aligned to a low-order plane with perhaps a 2D periodic ...
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Does the thermal evolution of molecular structures critically affect the validity of the calculated magnetic anisotropy?
This is a particular aspect I'm interested in, from the more generic question
"Does the thermal evolution of chemical structures critically affect the validity of the calculated physical properties?". ...
