Unit cell

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created: 2021-10-31 02:57:04
modified: 2022-01-10 04:13:04

A crystal's unit cell is a repeating unit that covers the whole crystal exactly by tiling it over the lattice.

The smallest possible unit cell is the primitive cell.

A type of primitive cell is the Wigner-Seitz cell.


Different types of unit cells