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Page 89
... BRILLOUIN ZONE The Wigner - Seitz primitive cell ( page 73 ) of the reciprocal lattice is known as the first Brillouin zone . As the name suggests , one also defines higher Brillouin zones , which are primitive cells of a different type ...
... BRILLOUIN ZONE The Wigner - Seitz primitive cell ( page 73 ) of the reciprocal lattice is known as the first Brillouin zone . As the name suggests , one also defines higher Brillouin zones , which are primitive cells of a different type ...
Page 163
... zone as the set of points that can be reached from the origin without crossing any Bragg planes.12 Higher Brillouin zones are simply other regions bounded by the Bragg planes , defined as follows : — The first Brillouin zone is the set ...
... zone as the set of points that can be reached from the origin without crossing any Bragg planes.12 Higher Brillouin zones are simply other regions bounded by the Bragg planes , defined as follows : — The first Brillouin zone is the set ...
Page 164
... Brillouin zones for ( a ) body - centered cubic and ( b ) face - centered cubic crys- tals . ( Only the exterior sur- faces are shown . It follows from the definition on page 163 that the interior surface of the nth zone is identical to ...
... Brillouin zones for ( a ) body - centered cubic and ( b ) face - centered cubic crys- tals . ( Only the exterior sur- faces are shown . It follows from the definition on page 163 that the interior surface of the nth zone is identical to ...
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The Drude Theory of Metals | 1 |
Failures of the Free Electron Model | 57 |
Crystal Lattices | 63 |
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