Bravais Lattices and Crystal Classes
- Bravais lattices: primitive cubic, body-centered cubic, face-centered cubic
- Crystal classes: 36 cubic space groups, isometric crystal system, hexoctahedral, crystallographic point group notation
Single Element Structures
- Primitive cubic structure: rare in nature, found in polonium
- Body-centered cubic and face-centered cubic structures: common in nature, examples include iron, chromium, tungsten, niobium
- Diamond cubic structure: found in carbon, silicon, germanium, tin
Multi-Element Structures
- Compounds with cubic crystal structures: based on the cubic system, interpenetrating sublattices, examples include caesium chloride structure and rock-salt structure
Specific Crystal Structures
- Caesium chloride structure: ions arranged in a primitive cubic lattice, coordination number of eight, found in alkali halides and rare earth intermetallic compounds
- Rock-salt structure: octahedral coordination, examples include sodium chloride and alkali halides
- Fluorite structure: Fm3m structure with a 1:2 ratio of ions, similar to rock-salt structure
- Zincblende structure: tetrahedral coordination, examples include zincblende and compound semiconductors
- Heusler structure: based on CuMnAl structure, common for ternary compounds involving transition metals
- Iron monosilicide structure: chiral structure associated with helimagnetic properties
Cubic Crystal System
- Definition and characteristics: one of the seven crystal systems, three mutually perpendicular axes of equal length, high symmetry and isotropy
- Common elements and compounds: examples include sodium chloride, diamond, metals, rare earth compounds, binary transition metal compounds
- Physical properties: high symmetry and isotropy, high mechanical strength and hardness, isotropic conductors or insulators, high optical transparency
- Applications: semiconductor devices, gemstones, electrical wiring, magnetism, optoelectronics
- Research and studies: synthesis, characterization, phase transitions, electronic structure, thermodynamic properties
Cubic crystal system Data Sources
| Reference | URL |
|---|---|
| Glossary | https://harryandcojewellery.com.au/blogs/glossary/cubic-crystal-system |
| Wikipedia | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_crystal_system |
| Wikidata | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q473227 |
| Knowledge Graph | https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/03155s |