- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Dedicated to <b>Hartmut Baärnighausen</b> and <b>Hans Wondratschek</b>
- Preface
- List of symbols
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Basics of crystallography, part 1
- 3 Mappings
- 4 Basics of crystallography, part 2
- 5 Group theory
- 6 Basics of crystallography, part 3
- 7 Subgroups and supergroups of point and space groups
- 8 Conjugate subgroups, normalizers and equivalent descriptions of crystal structures
- 9 How to handle space groups
- 10 The group-theoretical presentation of crystal-chemical relationships
- 11 Symmetry relations between related crystal structures
- 12 Pitfalls when setting up group-subgroup relations
- 13 Derivation of crystal structures from closest packings of spheres
- 14 Crystal structures of molecular compounds
- 15 Symmetry relations at phase transitions
- 16 Topotactic reactions
- 17 Group—subgroup relations as an aid for structure determination
- 18 Prediction of possible structure types
- 19 Historical remarks
- Appendices
- A Isomorphic subgroups
- B On the theory of phase transitions
- C Symmetry species
- D Solutions to the exercises
- References
- Glossary
- Index
Basics of crystallography, part 1
Basics of crystallography, part 1
- Chapter:
- (p.10) (p.11) 2 Basics of crystallography, part 1
- Source:
- Symmetry Relationships between Crystal Structures
- Author(s):
Ulrich Müller
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
A crystal can be considered to be a finite section from an infinite ideal crystal (a crystal pattern). This is an infinite periodic, three-dimensional array of atoms. A shift by a translation vector which brings a crystal to superposition with itself is a symmetry translation. The infinite set of all translation vectors is the lattice. Crystal coordinates are referred to a coordinate system which is set up by three basis vectors (the lattice basis). The basis vectors span a parallelepiped called the unit cell. The lattice is primitive if, referred to this lattice basis, all lattice vectors have integral coefficients; otherwise the lattice is centred. The lengths of the basis vectors and the angles between them are the lattice parameters. They serve to define the metric tensor which is useful to calculating distances and angles.
Keywords: symmetry translation, translation vector, lattice, lattice vector, basis vector, unit cell, primitive lattice, lattice parameters, coordinates, metric tensor
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- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Dedicated to <b>Hartmut Baärnighausen</b> and <b>Hans Wondratschek</b>
- Preface
- List of symbols
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Basics of crystallography, part 1
- 3 Mappings
- 4 Basics of crystallography, part 2
- 5 Group theory
- 6 Basics of crystallography, part 3
- 7 Subgroups and supergroups of point and space groups
- 8 Conjugate subgroups, normalizers and equivalent descriptions of crystal structures
- 9 How to handle space groups
- 10 The group-theoretical presentation of crystal-chemical relationships
- 11 Symmetry relations between related crystal structures
- 12 Pitfalls when setting up group-subgroup relations
- 13 Derivation of crystal structures from closest packings of spheres
- 14 Crystal structures of molecular compounds
- 15 Symmetry relations at phase transitions
- 16 Topotactic reactions
- 17 Group—subgroup relations as an aid for structure determination
- 18 Prediction of possible structure types
- 19 Historical remarks
- Appendices
- A Isomorphic subgroups
- B On the theory of phase transitions
- C Symmetry species
- D Solutions to the exercises
- References
- Glossary
- Index
