Ch1 2 Tina
Ch1 2 Tina
Ch1 2 Tina
Na
hcp: ABABAB
fcc: ABCABC
Diamond Structure
III-V semiconductors
STM image
Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM)
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NONIDEAL CRYSTAL STRUCTURES
But no general proof has been given that the ideal crystal is the state of
minimum energy of identical atoms at absolute zero. At finite temperatures
this is not likely to be true. Many structures that occur in nature are not
entirely periodic; see the quasicrystals treated at the end of Chapter 2.
Random Stacking and Polytypism
Structures are known in which the stacking sequence of close-packed
planes is random. This is known as random stacking and may be thought of
as crystalline in two dimensions and noncrystalline or glasslike in the third.