Grain Concept

3D ABC stacking
Tetrahedral and octahedral voids
FCC voids Position Voids / cell Voids / atom
¼ way from each vertex of the cube
Tetrahedral along body diagonal <111> 8 2
 ((¼, ¼, ¼))
• Body centre: 1  (½, ½, ½)
Octahedral 4 1
• Edge centre: (12/4 = 3)  (½, 0, 0)
NaCl Structure/ Rock Salt Structure
Zinc Sulphide / Zinc blende Structure
Graphite Structure
Diamond Structure
 Hume-Rothery rules

 Size difference between the atoms of solute

and the parent metal should be less than 15%.

 The electronegetivity difference between the

metals should be small.

 For complete solubility over the entire range of

compositions the crystal structures of the solute
and the solvent must be the same.