Anisotropy of bond projections in simple crystal structures

作者:Simunek Antonin*
来源:Physical Review B, 2011, 84(13): 132106.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.84.132106

摘要

The nearest-neighbor bond distances represented by the stick-and-ball model of a crystal are projected into planes in order to find the directions from where the projections have maximum or minimum values. The projection directions and their corresponding values of the maxima and minima are presented for simple cubic, body-centered-cubic, face-centered-cubic, sodium chloride, zinc sulfide, diamond, fluorite, cesium chloride, hexagonal close-packed, tungsten carbide, wurtzite, graphite, graphene, and aluminum boride structures. The purely geometrical considerations quantitatively reflect an anisotropy of the bond projections and provide data for a large amount of materials crystallizing in these structures. The presented results can be applied to the description, analysis, and understanding of anisotropic effects related to bond projection in 14 crystal structures. The application of hardness anisotropy for BN, SiC, and TiC is shown.

  • 出版日期2011-10-31

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