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This document contains a physics problem set from MIT's Physics of Solids I course due on September 18. It includes 4 problems on topics like x-ray powder diffraction of different crystal structures, the reciprocal lattice of americium, the form factor for atomic hydrogen, and how the choice of primitive vs. conventional unit cell affects the reciprocal lattice. Students are asked to identify crystal structures, sketch diffraction patterns and reciprocal lattices, calculate structure factors and smallest diffraction angles, and explain how allowed reflections remain the same despite the unit cell choice.

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Problem Set 2

This document contains a physics problem set from MIT's Physics of Solids I course due on September 18. It includes 4 problems on topics like x-ray powder diffraction of different crystal structures, the reciprocal lattice of americium, the form factor for atomic hydrogen, and how the choice of primitive vs. conventional unit cell affects the reciprocal lattice. Students are asked to identify crystal structures, sketch diffraction patterns and reciprocal lattices, calculate structure factors and smallest diffraction angles, and explain how allowed reflections remain the same despite the unit cell choice.

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MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Physics Department

8.231, Physics of Solids I Due on Sept. 18

Problem set #2

1. X-ray Powder diffraction


X-ray powder diffractions are done for three crystals. Each crystal is formed by one find of
atoms. The atoms in the three crystals form a simple cubic (SC), a face centered cubic (FCC),
and a body centered cubic (BCC) crystal structures respectively. Let φ be the diffraction
angle. The diffraction peaks are observed at the following diffraction angles for the three
crystals:
φ
Crystal A: sin = 0.127, 0.180, 0.255, 0.285, 0.312.
2
φ
Crystal B: sin = 0.150, 0.212, 0.260, 0.300, 0.335, 0.367.
2
φ
Crystal C: sin = 0.121, 0.140, 0.198, 0.232, 0.242, 0.280, 0.305.
2
(a) Identify the crystal structures of the crystal A, B, and C.
(b) Sketch the first four powder diffraction peaks for the SC crystal. Now assume that as we
lower the temperature, the SC crystal is changed into the tetragonal structure through
a continuous phase transition. Describe and sketch how the above four peaks change as
the crystal changes into the tetragonal structure.

2. Americium
The figure below shows a primitive unit cell of one crystalline√ form of the element Americium.
The space lattice is hexagonal with a�1 = aˆ x + 23 aŷ, and a�3 = cẑ. The basis is
x, a�2 = 12 aˆ

221 1 113
(000), (
3 3 4 ), (00
2 ), and (
3 3 4 ).

� . Describe in words and sketch the reciprocal lattice.


(a) Find the reciprocal lattice vectors G
(b) Find the structure factors associated with the points (100), (001), and (120) of the
reciprocal lattice.
(c) Calculate the three smallest X-ray diffraction angles in a powder diffraction experiments.
Assuming c = 2a and the wave length of the X-ray to be λ = a/10.

3. Form Factor for Atomic Hydrogen


For the hydrogen atom in its ground state, the number density is n(r) = (πa30 )−1 exp(−2r/a0 ).
where a0 is the Bohr radius. Show that the form factor is fG = 16/(4 + G2 a20 )2 .

4. Reciprocal Lattice of Conventional versus Primitive Unit Cells

(a) Why are there fewer reciprocal lattice points G � in a given volume of Fourier space if the
unit cell of the crystal lattice is primitive than if the unit cell is non-primitive?
(b) In view of (a), how can the allowed reflections from a given structure be independent of
the choice of the unit cell of the crystal lattice?

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