Auguste

Bravais

• Found fourteen unique lattices which

satisfy the requirements
• Published Études Crystallographiques in
1849
 Non-primative unit cell.
• Four clases:
- Primitive unit cell (P).
- Plane centred unit cell (A, B or C).
- Body centred unit cell (I).
- Face centred unit cell (F).
• In combination with previous 7 primitive cells leads to 14 Bravais
lattices.

P A I F
Why bother with non-primitive cells?

• The blue unit-cell is a primitive unit cells

with ! the volume of the B unit cell.
- However some symmetry of the
total unit cell is lost in making the
choice of the blue cell.
! " " # " $ in this choice but " = # = $
= 90o in the other.
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