crystallography, crystal structure is a description of the ordered arrangement of atoms, ions, or molecules in a crystalline material. Ordered structures occur from...

In crystallography, the hexagonal crystal family is one of the 6 crystal families, which includes two crystal systems (hexagonal and trigonal) and two...

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) is the calculation of the crystal structures of solids from first principles. Reliable methods of predicting the crystal...

science of determining the atomic and molecular structure of a crystal, in which the crystalline structure causes a beam of incident X-rays to diffract in...

cubic crystal structure is the diamond cubic structure, which can appear in carbon, silicon, germanium, and tin. Unlike fcc and bcc, this structure is not...

ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions. In addition, macroscopic single crystals are usually identifiable...

crystals several meters across. The opposite of a single crystal is an amorphous structure where the atomic position is limited to short-range order...

the same way that the structure of natural crystals gives rise to X-ray diffraction and that the atomic lattices (crystal structure) of semiconductors affect...

Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD) is a chemical database founded in 1978 by Günter Bergerhoff at the University of Bonn in Germany and I. D...

In crystallography, the orthorhombic crystal system is one of the 7 crystal systems. Orthorhombic lattices result from stretching a cubic lattice along...

sense. Crystal cluster – Group of crystals formed in an open space with form determined by their internal crystal structure Crystal structure – Ordered...

structure: In type is slightly distorted from a cubic close packed structure α-Pa type is distorted from a hexagonal close packed structure Crystal structure...

helpful. Since [crystal structure] = [lattice] ∗ {\displaystyle \ast } [basis], F {\displaystyle {\mathcal {F}}} [crystal structure] = F {\displaystyle...

materials scientists as an analytical tool. A common method of modeling crystal structure and behavior is to view electrons as quantum mechanical particles...

phenomenon where a compound or element can crystallize into more than one crystal structure. The preceding definition has evolved over many years and is still...

distances determined by the unit cell parameters in crystals, exhibit a periodic crystal structure, but this is usually imperfect. Several types of defects...

common crystal structure, discovered in 1933 as part of the chromium-carbon binary phase diagram. Over 85 known compounds adopt this structure type, which...

investigate the structures of crystalline materials. It is important to understand the crystal structure of materials to form structure-property relationships...

real crystals contain dislocations and other defects, which act as a catalyst for the addition of particles to the existing crystalline structure. By contrast...

where there is a change in the crystal structure. The third is deformation twinning, in which twinning develops in a crystal in response to a shear stress...

dry lubricant. While all single crystals will show some tendency to split along atomic planes in their crystal structure, if the differences between one...

Molecular Structure and the Properties of Liquid Crystals became a guidebook on the subject. One of the first U.S. chemists to study liquid crystals was Glenn...

lattice in two dimensions: the square lattice. Bravais lattices Crystal system Crystal structure Point groups Cubic-to-Tetragonal Transition Webmineral data...

monoclinic crystal system is one of the seven crystal systems. A crystal system is described by three vectors. In the monoclinic system, the crystal is described...

enantiomorphous pairs). Both α-quartz and β-quartz are examples of chiral crystal structures composed of achiral building blocks (SiO4 tetrahedra in the present...

the atomic structure. In addition, physical properties are often controlled by crystalline defects. The understanding of crystal structures is an important...

A seed crystal is a small piece of single crystal or polycrystal material from which a large crystal of typically the same material is grown in a laboratory...

substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form. The geological definition of mineral...

of the highest refractive indices at visible wavelengths of any known crystal and also exhibits a particularly large birefringence and high dispersion...

only slightly less so, and vaterite is the least stable. The calcite crystal structure is trigonal, with space group R3c (No. 167 in the International Tables...