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FCC structure : (111) plane density

Method · February 2019

DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.10596.63367

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𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝐶𝐶 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒

110 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑤 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑐
𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑚:

height × width 𝑎 2
𝐴𝑒𝑟𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒 111 ∶ 𝑆 ℎ
2 2
𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑔𝑡ℎ ∶ 𝑎 2 ℎ → ℎ =2 𝑎 thus ℎ 𝑎

𝑆 S= 2 2𝑅 → 𝑆 4𝑅 3

1 1
𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 111 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒 ∶ 3 3
6 2
Surface of each of them s 𝜋𝑟
1 1
3 3 𝜋𝑟 𝜋
𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑟 𝐷𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 6 2 0.906
𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 111 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒 2 3

Note : This Is the Most Planar Density in the FCC structure : d=0.555 for (110) and d= 0.785 for (100)
Sébastien PAIRIS 
Institut Néel (CNRS) ‐ Département Physique LUmière Matière (PLUM) / Pôle Optique et Microscopies Bât. F ‐ BP 166  38042 Grenoble Cedex 9 (France