Engineering Physics,
CRYSTALLOGRAPHY,
Simple cubic, Body-centered cubic, Face-centered cubic,
DIAMOND STRUCTURE,
Atomic Packing Factor of Diamond Structure,
Projection of diamond lattice points on the base
4. Diamond cubic structure is obtained when two FCC sublattices
interpenetrates along the body diagonal by 1/4th cube edge.
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There are eight carbon atoms at the corner, creating a cube.
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12. Atomic Packing Factor
nfcc = (1/8 x 8 corner atoms) + (1/2 x 6 face atoms)
= 1+3
= 4 atoms.
n = 4+4
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There are atoms at all eight corners and all six faces.
In addition to that there are 4 full atoms inside the unit cell.
Total number of atoms present in a unit cell.
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