The monoclinic unit cell has three lattice parameters a, b, and c that each have different lengths; two vector angles α and γ are at 90º to each other, and the third vector angle β is...
Category: Crystallography
The orthorhombic cell looks like a box with 3 different edge lengths. Base-centering means there is an extra lattice point at two opposite faces, which I will call the “top” and...
The orthorhombic unit cell looks like a box with 3 different edge lengths. There is an atom shared among the 8 corners of this box, and “face-centering” means there are additional atoms centered...
The body-centered orthorhombic unit cell looks like a box with 3 different edge lengths, with an atom on each corner and another in the center. Since body-centered orthorhombic is one of the...
The orthorhombic unit cell looks like a box with 3 different edge lengths. Since simple orthorhombic is one of the less-common crystal structures, I’m assuming someone searching for this is a...
Primitive Unit Cells (including Wigner–Seitz and voronoi cells)
If you’re googling “primitive cell,” I imagine you are a somewhat advanced student in materials science (or an extremely advanced PhD student in chemistry or physics?). The primitive cell,...