Past exam of the materials science course of the University of Cambridge 2019 Paper 1 3 b Solution 2026-10-20
Successive planes normal to are chemically ordered Au and Cu layers. The supplied four-site cell is a convenient doubled description of the primitive tetragonal lattice: valid primitive translations areThey give a square basal cell of side , containing an Au basis atom at the origin and Cu at fractional . That last vector exchanges chemical species and is not a Bravais translation. Thus a face-centred-looking atomic arrangement does not make the chemically ordered material an FCC Bravais lattice. This is the L10 crystal structure; the following indices retain the larger cell specified in the question.
Primitive tetragonal lattice 2026-10-20
A Bravais lattice with mutually perpendicular primitive vectors of lengths , with . A chemically ordered L10 crystal structure has this translation lattice even when drawn using a larger four-site cell that resembles a distorted FCC conventional cell.
