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Past exam of the condensed matter physics course of the University of Oxford 2021 2 a Solution by
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The Bravais lattice is a face-centered cubic lattice. Four inequivalent representatives of its lattice points in the conventional cubic unit cell, in fractional crystal coordinates, areBoundary copies in the drawing do not constitute additional independent lattice points. Attach the two-atom atomic basisto each lattice point. The resulting aluminium phosphide crystal structure is the zinc blende structure. For example, the four phosphorus positions reduced into the conventional unit cell are , , , and , reproducing the heights in the source drawing. There are four aluminium and four phosphorus chemical atoms per conventional unit cell, but only two chemical atoms per primitive unit cell.
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