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This simulation illustrates several crystal structures, showing unit cells and Miller indices.
Details
Differences in simple cubic, body-centered cubic, face-centered cubic, and hexagonal close packed structures are shown. Also illustrated are structures for CsCl, diamond, NaCl, and ZnS.
Planes are drawn for Miller indices that are selected.
About
This simulation was created in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder for LearnChemE.com by John L. Falconer using Claude AI. It is a JavaScript/HTML5 implementation of a Mathematica simulation by Yunfeng Shi and Adam Bross. It was prepared with financial support from the National Science Foundation (DUE 2336987 and 2336988). Address any questions or comments to LearnChemE@gmail.com.