describe two algorithms that allow the determination of the primitive cell of a structure, including its translational symmetry and the space group identification. ADDSYM, , is a tool to search for additional symmetries in a given coordinate set. For example, FINDSYM identifies the space group symmetry and gives the lattice parameters and Wyckoff positions of atoms in a standard setting. There exists some notable work on identifying space group information from atomic coordinates. However, since every essential unit cell parameter must be given to those tools as input, all they actually do is to provide a user interface where input parameters are converted to unit cell parameters. Basically, these tools allow users to examine every known detail of unit cell structure to understand the crystal structure more clearly. Users can examine atomic placements, perform several analyses, etc. These tools allow users to define their own unit cell by entering unit cell parameters. The first category is crystallographic tools Computational Crystallography Toolbox, an open source program, is in this category. There is a considerable amount of research based on extracting pattern information from the atomic coordinates of a crystal structure these studies can be grouped into three categories. Therefore, a tool that can determine crystal parameters from atomic coordinates could be very useful. At other times, scientists may work on theoretical materials where no sample is available and thus no X-ray diffraction data. In those cases, crystallographers must try several crystal geometries manually. These techniques generally give satisfactory results but sometimes the results are inadequate. Such classification is quite useful in analyzing physical properties, particularly, in complex cases such as alloys whose atomic ratios can change.Ĭrystallography mainly uses X-ray diffraction techniques to determine the crystal structure of materials X-ray absorbance data reveals crystal geometry. In material science, crystal parameters are used to classify materials. The physical properties of a material are closely related to its crystal structure. Obtaining the parameters for crystal structures is an important issue in crystallography. Running time: All the examples presented in the paper take less than 30 seconds on a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 computer. However, none of them can be considered as a restriction onto the complexity of the problem.
Restrictions: Assumptions are explained in the paper. Solution method: The tool extracts crystal parameters such as primitive vectors, basis vectors and identify the space group from atomic coordinates of crystal structures. For complex structures, particularly, for materials which also contain local symmetry as well as global symmetry, obtaining crystal parameters can be quite hard. Knowing the crystal structure parameters helps to understand physical behavior of material. Nature of problem: Determining crystal structure parameters of a material is a quite important issue in crystallography.
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Operating system: Windows XP Professional NET Framework 1.1 and OpenGL LibrariesĬomputer: Personal Computers with Windows operating system Programming language used: C, C++, Microsoft. Program obtainable from: CPC Program Library, Queen's University of Belfast, N.