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    Diamond Crystal Structure

    Diamond is a metastable allotrope of carbon where the


    each carbon atom is bonded covalently with other
    surrounding four carbon atoms and are arranged in a
    variation of the face centered cubic crystal structure
    called a diamond lattice
    Diamond Unit Cell

    Figure shows four atoms (dark) bonded to four others


    within the volume of the cell. Six atoms fall on the middle
    of each of the six cube faces, showing two bonds. Out of
    eight cube corners, four atoms bond to an atom within
    the cube. The other four bond to adjacent cubes of the
    crystal
    Lattice Vector and Basis Atoms
    So the structure consists of two basis atoms and may be
    thought of as two inter-penetrating face centered cubic
    lattices, with a basis of two identical carbon atoms
    associated with each lattice point one displaced from the
    other by a translation of ao(1/4,1/4,1/4) along a body
    diagonal so we can say the diamond cubic structure is a
    combination of two interpenetrating FCC sub lattices
    displaced along the body diagonal of the cubic cell by
    1/4th length of that diagonal. Thus the origins of two FCC
    sub lattices lie at (0, 0, 0) and (1/4, 1/4,1/4)

    (a) (b)

    (aa) Crystallographic unit cell (unit cube) of the diamond structure


    (bb) The primitive basis vectors of the face centered cubic lattice and
    the two atoms forming the basis are highlighted.
    The primitive basis vectors and the two atoms at (0,0,0)
    and ao(1/4,1/4,1/4) are highlighted in Figure(b)and the
    basis vectors of the direct Bravais lattice are

    Where ao denotes the lattice constant of the relaxed lattice.


    The lattice is invariant under translations involving lattice
    vectors of the form

    where i , j and k are integers.


    Number of atoms contributed by the corner atoms to an
    unit cell is 1/8×8 =1 and number of atoms contributed by
    the face centred atoms to the unit cell is 1/2 × 6 = 3 and
    atoms inside the structure =4 ,so total number of atoms
    present in a diamond cubic unit cell is 1 + 3 + 4 = 8,Since
    each carbon atom is surrounded by four more carbon
    atoms,the co-ordination number is 4

    Z
    2r
    X a/4

    a/4 Y
    a/4
    W
    From triangle WXY
    XY^2=(a/4)^2+(a/4)^2
    =(a^2)/8
    From triangle XYZ
    XZ^2=(a^2)/8 + (a/4)^2
    =(3a^2)/16
    But XZ=2r
    So (2r)^2 = (3a^2)/16

    Atomic radius r =( a(3)^1/2)/8

    Atomic packing factor is = v/V


    =[(8*4*PI*r^3)/3]/[(a)^3]
    By putting value of r we get-----
    APF=0.34 =34%

    Thus it is a loosely packed structure

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