Gifts for Physicists
The lattices behind solid-state physics - band gaps, phonons, superconductivity, and close packing made visible. Rendered from real crystallographic data.
Silicon (Diamond Cubic)
The crystal structure that powers every computer chip and solar panel
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Diamond-cubic silicon - the semiconductor the entire information age is built on.
Diamond
The hardest natural material — pure carbon locked in a cubic lattice
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The widest-band-gap classic and a phonon-transport showpiece.
Gallium Arsenide
The semiconductor crystal powering solar cells, LEDs, and high-speed microchips
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The III-V zinc-blende that runs lasers, LEDs, and the fastest transistors.
YBCO Superconductor
orthorhombic · P m m m
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YBa2Cu3O7 - the oxide that carries current with zero resistance above liquid nitrogen.
Copper
The warm-toned metal that has wired human civilisation for thousands of years
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Face-centred cubic, the canonical free-electron metal of every textbook.
α-Iron (Ferrite)
The everyday form of iron — the backbone of steel and construction
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Body-centred cubic ferrite - ferromagnetic, the original spin system.
Tungsten (α, BCC)
The stable everyday form of tungsten — the highest-melting pure metal
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The bcc refractory metal with the highest melting point of them all.
Graphite
The slippery form of carbon in every pencil — flat sheets stacked in perfect layers
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Stacked honeycomb sheets - the parent lattice of graphene and 2D physics.