Crystal Lattice Structures:	Reference Date:  1 Sep 1995
	Last Modified: 21 Oct 2004

Index by Strukturbericht Designation

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• Strukturbericht symbols are a partly systematic method for specifying the structure of a crystal. Thus the A structures are supposed to be monatomic, B's are diatomic with equal numbers of atoms of each type, C's have a 2-1 abundance ratio, D0's are 3-1, etc. Unfortunately, this scheme breaks down as early as A15. Numbers were assigned in roughly the historical order of the study of the lattice.
• Barrett and Massalski give a table (p. 29) which gives the correspondence between the Strukturbericht types and the complexity of the crystal:
  
  

  Strukturbericht Designation	Crystal Type
  A	Elements
  B	AB compounds
  C	AB2 compounds
  D	AmBn compounds
  E, F, G, H ··· K	More complex compounds
  L	Alloys
  O	Organic compounds
  S	Silicates

  
  
  

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Strukturbericht Types:

A Type	B Type	C Type
D Type	E Type	F Type
G Type	H Type	L Type

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Structures indexed by: Pearson Symbol Space Group Prototype

This is a mirror of an old page created at the Naval Research Laboratory Center for Computational Materials Science The maintained successor is hosted at http://www.aflowlib.org/CrystalDatabase/ and published as M. Mehl et al., Comput. Mater. Sci. 136 (Supp.), S1-S828 (2017).