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4 We will deal with crystalline solids, that is solids
with an atomic structure based on a regular
repeated pattern.
4 Many important solids are crystalline.
4 More progress has been made in understanding the

behaviour of crystalline solids than that of non-
crystalline materials since the calculation are easier
in crystalline materials.
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4 olid state physics, also known as condensed matter

physics, is the study of the behaviour of atoms when
they are placed in close proximity to one another.
4 In fact, condensed matter physics is a much better

name, since many of the concepts relevant to solids
are also applied to liquids, for example.
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4 ·nderstanding the electrical properties of solids is

right at the heart of modern society and technology.
4 The entire computer and electronics industry relies

on tuning of a special class of material, the
semiconductor, which lies right at the metal-
insulator boundary. olid state physics provide a
background to understand what goes on in
semiconductors.

4 áew technology for the future will inevitably involve

developing and understanding new classes of
materials. By the end of this course we will see why
this is a non-trivial task.
4 o, is the applied physics associated with

technology rather than interesting fundamentals.
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4 uow can this be? After all, they each contain a system of
atoms and especially electrons of similar density. And the
plot thickens: graphite is a metal, diamond is an insulator and
buckminster-fullerene is a superconductor.
They are all just carbon!
4 Among our aims - understand ^ one is a metal and
one an insulator, and then the physical origin of the
marked features.
4 Also think about thermal properties etc. etc.
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4 lementary Crystallography
w olid materials (crystalline, polycrystalline,
amorphous)
w Crystallography
w Crystal Lattice
w Crystal tructure
w Types of Lattices
w ·nit Cell
w Directions- lanes-Miller Indices in Cubic ·nit Cell
4 Typical Crystal tructures
(3D± 14 Bravais Lattices and the even Crystal ystem)
4 lements of ymmetry
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By the end of this section you should:
4 be able to identify a unit cell in a symmetrical

pattern
4 know that there are 7 possible unit cell shapes
4 be able to define cubic, tetragonal,
orthorhombic and hexagonal unit cell shapes

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4 °ases have atoms or molecules that do not
bond to one another in a range of pressure,
temperature and volume.
4 These molecules haven¶t any particular order
and move freely within a container.
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4 imilar to gases, liquids haven¶t any atomic/molecular

order and they assume the shape of the containers.
4 Applying low levels of thermal energy can easily
break the existing weak bonds.
Liquid crystals have mobile

molecules, but a type of long
range order can exist; the
molecules have a permanent
dipole. Applying an electric field
rotates the dipole and establishes
order within the collection of
molecules.
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4 olids consist of atoms or molecules
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in space.
4 olids can take the form of crystalline,
polycrstalline, or amorphous materials.
4 olids (at a given temperature, pressure, and
volume) have stronger bonds between
molecules and atoms than liquids.
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4 ingle crsytal, polycrystalline, and amorphous, are the
three general types of solids.
4 ach type is characterized by the size of ordered

region within the material.
4 An ordered region is a spatial volume in which atoms

or molecules have a regular geometric arrangement
or periodicity.
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4 Crystalline olid is the solid form of a substance in
which the
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a definite, repeating pattern in three dimension.
4 ingle crystals, ideally have a high degree of order, or
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4 ingle crystal has an atomic structure that repeats
periodically across its whole volume. ven at infinite length
scales, each atom is related to every other equivalent
atom in the structure by translational symmetry

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4 olycrystal is a material made up of an aggregate of

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(also called crystallites or grains).
4 olycrystalline material have a high degree of order over many atomic or molecular
dimensions.
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one another.
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4 Amorphous (áon-crystalline) olid is composed of randomly
orientated atoms , ions, or molecules that do not form defined
patterns or lattice structures
4 Amorphous materials have order only within a few atomic or
molecular dimensions.
4 Amorphous materials do not have any long-range order, but they
have varying degrees of short-range order.
4 xamples to amorphous materials include amorphous silicon,
plastics, and glasses.
4 Amorphous silicon can be used in solar cells and thin film transistors.
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4 trictly speaking, one cannot prepare a perfect crystal. For
example, even the surface of a crystal is a kind of
imperfection because the periodicity is interrupted there.
4 Another example concerns the thermal vibrations of the atoms

around their equilibrium positions for any temperature T>0°K.
4 As a third example, actual

crystal always contains some
foreign atoms, i.e., impurities.
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perfect crystal structure.
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The branch of science that deals with the geometric

description of crystals and their internal arrangement.
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Crystallography is essential for solid state physics
4 ymmetry of a crystal can have a profound influence

on its properties.
4 Any crystal structure should be specified completely,
concisely and unambiguously.
4 tructures should be classified into different types
according to the symmetries they possess.
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4 A basic knowledge of crystallography is essential

for solid state physicists;
w to specify any crystal structure and
w to classify the solids into different types according to
the symmetries they possess.
4 ymmetry of a crystal can have a profound

influence on its properties.
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simple structures.
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In crystallography, only the geometrical properties of the
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an arrangement and orientation that appears exactly the
same, from whichever of the points the array is viewed.
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appear exactly the same from every point in a bravais lattice.
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immediate left, the blue one instead
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4 Red (and blue) sides are equivalent
and have the same appearance
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A space lattice is a set of points such
that a translation from any point in the
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lattice point represented by the position vector r, there is
then also a lattice point represented by the position vector
where , and are arbitrary integers.
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1) Determine the intercepts of the plane along each of the three

crystallographic directions
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can be stacked together to completely fill all space (in 3
dimensions) without overlapping. This gives the seven
crystal systems, in which all crystal structures can be
classified.
4 Cubic Crystal ystem (C, BCC,FCC)

4 uexagonal Crystal ystem ()
4 Triclinic Crystal ystem ()
4 Monoclinic Crystal ystem (, Base-C)
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4 Tetragonal Crystal ystem (, BC)
4 Trigonal (Rhombohedral) Crystal ystem ()
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4 Coordinatıon áumber (Cá) : The Bravais lattice points

closest to a given point are the nearest neighbours.
4 Because the Bravais lattice is periodic, all points have

the same number of nearest neighbours or coordination
number. It is a property of the lattice.
4 A simple cubic has coordination number 6; a body-

centered cubic lattice, 8; and a face-centered cubic
lattice,12.
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4 In the unit cell on the left, the atoms at the corners are cut
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4 Many of common metals (Cu,ái, b..etc) crystallize in FCC
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with a basis consisting of a
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4 The diamond lattice is not a Bravais
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4 Zincblende has equal numbers of zinc and

sulfur ions distributed on a diamond lattice
so that each has four of the opposite kind as
nearest neighbors. This structure is an
example of a lattice with a basis, which must
so described both because of the
geometrical position of the ions and
because two types of ions occur.
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Zinc Blende is the name given to the mineral Zn. It has a cubic
close packed (face centred) array of and the Zn(II) sit in
tetrahedral (1/2 occupied) sites in the lattice.
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4 Center of inversion can only be in a molecule. It is not
necessary to have an atom in the center (benzene, ethane).
Tetrahedral, triangles, pentagons don't have a center of
inversion symmetry. All Bravais lattices are inversion
symmetric.
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in this plane is performed, the cell remains invariant.
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4 Monoclinic has one plane midway between and
parallel to the bases, and so forth.

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into itself under other rotations
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of rotational symmetry, but an infinite
periodic lattice ± can not.
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through some angles, the cell remains invariant.
4 The axis is called n-fold if the angle of rotation is 2ʌ/n.

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4 Kepler wondered why snowflakes have 6 corners,
never 5 or 7.By considering the packing of polygons
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4 Monoclinic has 2-fold axis (ș= 2ʌ/2 =ʌ) normal to the
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4 Many important solids are crystalline.

4 More progress has been made in understanding the

4 olid state physics, also known as condensed matter

4 In fact, condensed matter physics is a much better

4 ·nderstanding the electrical properties of solids is

4 The entire computer and electronics industry relies

4 áew technology for the future will inevitably involve

4 o,  is the applied physics associated with

By the end of this section you should:

4 be able to identify a unit cell in a symmetrical

4 imilar to gases, liquids haven¶t any atomic/molecular

Liquid crystals have mobile

4 ach type is characterized by the size of ordered

4 An ordered region is a spatial volume in which atoms

4 Another example concerns the thermal vibrations of the atoms

4 As a third example, actual

The branch of science that deals with the geometric

Crystallography is essential for solid state physics

4 ymmetry of a crystal can have a profound influence

4 A basic knowledge of crystallography is essential

4 ymmetry of a crystal can have a profound

4 We will concern in this course with solids with

latinum latinum surface Crystal lattice and

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