Brillouin zone & reciprocal lattice

Layer 2 — Chemistryin the solid-state-chemistry subtree

Brillouin 1930: first Brillouin zone is the Wigner-Seitz cell of the reciprocal lattice; k-points within are the unique-momenta describing periodic-crystal electronic states. Symmetry points (Γ, X, L, K) labelled by…

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