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Electronic Devices: Unit Cell & Crystal Structures

The document is a tutorial for an EE221 Electronic Devices course, containing questions related to crystal structures, unit cells, primitive cells, and various lattice types. It covers calculations for atomic packing fraction, volume density, and Miller indices for different crystal structures, including Simple Cubic, Body Centered Cubic, and Face Centered Cubic. Additionally, it includes practical exercises such as sketches of crystal planes and finding Miller indices.

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Electronic Devices: Unit Cell & Crystal Structures

The document is a tutorial for an EE221 Electronic Devices course, containing questions related to crystal structures, unit cells, primitive cells, and various lattice types. It covers calculations for atomic packing fraction, volume density, and Miller indices for different crystal structures, including Simple Cubic, Body Centered Cubic, and Face Centered Cubic. Additionally, it includes practical exercises such as sketches of crystal planes and finding Miller indices.

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EE221 Electronic Devices

Tutorial-1
Q1 What is a unit cell? Can there be more than 1 unit cell in the crystal structure? Why?

Q2 What is a primitive cell? Can there be more than 1 primitive cell in the crystal
structure? Why?

Q3 What is the difference between a lattice and a crystal? How many different one
dimensional lattices can you have?

Q4 Which statement below is true?


a. GaAs has a diamond / zinc blende crystal structure.
b. Si has a diamond / zinc blende crystal structure.

Q5 For Simple Cubic (SC), Body centered cubic (BCC) and Face centered cubic (FCC)
structure:
a. Find the number of atoms
b. How far apart in terms of lattice constant are the nearest neighbor atoms in each
case, measured from center to center?
c. Find atomic packing fraction (APF) if the atoms are closely packed together
d. Find volume density (#/cm3 ) if lattice constant a = 5 Å
e. Calculate the areal density of atoms (#/cm2 ) on the (100) plane.

Q6 For Silicon (Diamond crystal structure) with the lattice constant of 5.43 Å.
a. How to get diamond crystal structure from FCC?
b. Is diamond structure a Bravais Lattice? Why?
c. Calculate APF.
d. Find volume density (#/cm3 )
e. Calculate the areal density of atoms (#/cm2 ) on the (100) and (111) plane.

Q7 For a bcc lattice structure with a lattice constant of 3 Å,


a. calculate the separating distance between the nearest atoms,
b. The radius and the volume of each atom.
Q8 If a BCC unit cell has a volume density of 1.6 x 10 22 cm-3, calculate the lattice
constant. What is the atomic density per unit area on the (110) plane? What is the radius
of each atom?

Q9 What is the importance of Miller indices? What are the miller indices of a plane
normal to the X axis? Give each step to find Miller indices?

Q10 Assuming a Simple Cubic crystal structure, make a sketch of the following planes.
a) (100) b) (123) c) (111) d) (221) e) (110) f) (1’10) g) (1’ 1’ 1’ )
NOTE: 1’ = 1 bar (If 1 bar encountered in any problem you have to consider negative
values of any coordinate )

Q11 Find the Miller indices of the planes given below

a) b) c)

d) e) f)

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