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...
Category: Specific Structures
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...
Alright, now we’re getting to the less-common crystal structures. If you’re searching for information about rhombohedral crystal cells, I’m assuming you’re a somewhat advanced student in...
Diamond tetragonal (abbreviated DT in this article) is more commonly known as the β-Sn, or white tin crystal structure. It is one of the advanced crystal structures (because it doesn’t correlate...
Diamond cubic (abbreviated DC in this article) is one of the advanced crystal structures (because it doesn’t correlate 1-1 to a Bravais lattice), so if you’re searching for information about it,...