A crystal structure in which atoms are located at each corner and in the center of the unit cell
body-centered cubic (BCC)
The number of atoms centered on a direction vector divided by the length of the direction vector
atomic linear density
A direction in a crystal in which all the atoms are touching one another
close-packed direction
A plane in a crystal in which all the atoms are touching one another
close-packed plane
A vector describing a line between two points on a crystal
crystallographic direction
The line that extends from one corner of a cube to the opposite corner
body diagonal
A 3-D geometric figure composed of orthogonal angles and equal side lengths
cube
A crystal structure in which atoms are located at all corners and the centers of each face
face-centered cubic (FCC)
A group of equivalent directions
family of directions
Indices used to define crystallographic planes
Miller indices
The basic structural unit of a crystal structure
unit cell
