Crystal Viewer Tool

Visualize different crystal lattices and planes

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Version 3.0.9 - published on 29 Jan 2020

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    Silicon With Miller Plane GaP unit cell NaCl unit cell AlN Hexagonal Bravais Lattice Carbon Nano Tube Bucky Ball Multi Layer Graphene User-Defined Crystal Ag Bravais Vectors GaN Bravais Vectors User-Defined Crystal Definition Black Phosphorous MoS2 Bi2Te3

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Abstract

Crystal Viewer 3.0 is a new tool starting from scratch. It is designed based on the old version 2.3.4 and aims to include better visualization and new features. It visualizes 14 Bravais lattices, Miller planes, and crystal structures of specific materials needed for many courses in materials, electronics and chemistry. Users can also create and view materials not contained in our database by setting certain material properties like the basis atom position, the Bravais vector. The main purpose of this educational tool is to provide insight about the crystalline structure of various materials.

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First Time User Guide: This document provides useful information to the users who are using the tool for the first time. It explains some important details about crystallography and usage of the tool..


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Version History:

Version 3.0 (Oct 2014)

  • Initial publish 

Version 3.0.2 (Jan 2015)

  • Add "text book" unit cell plotting for all cubic system materials

Version 3.0.3 (May 2016)

  • Add several materials: Bi2Te3, SrTiO3, MoS2, Black Phosphorous
  • Add Graphene AB stacking 

 

Wish List:

  • See this link for an elaborate wishlist of the tool.

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NEMO 5, a code under development in the research group of Gerhard Klimeck. NEMO 5 is an open source nanoelectronics device simulator containing a variety of different material and geometry models. Features include the construction of atomistic grids of varying crystal structures, multiband Schroedinger-Poisson simulations, atomistic strain and phonon computations, quantum transport using open-boundary wavefunctions or NEGF, and user-friendly input/output.

Credits

Crystal Viewer 3.0 was written and developed by Yuanchen Chu as a PhD student at Purdue University. 

 

Various people are also involved in the development of Crystal Viewer 3.0:

Travis Shepherd, Yosef Borga, Vincent Ntarugera, Kevin Margatan, Zach Shaffter... SURF program students summer intern (< V3.0)

G. Klimeck, H.-H. Park, J. Fonseca,  J. Sellier, M. Povolotskyi, S. Steiger, T. Kubis... NEMO 5 simulation engine (in alphabetical order)

Fan C... Add Graphene AB Stacking Visualization and SrTiO3

Tanya... Feature and design suggestion

The main author Yuanchen Chu is obliged to D. Mejia, G. Klimeck, J. Fonseca, M. Povoltskyi, T. Faltens for the valuable information and advice provided by them.

 

Sponsored by

Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN), Purdue University

References

Robert F. Pierret, Purdue University, Advanced Semiconductor Fundamentals (Second Edition).

ISBN-10: 013061792X  ISBN-13: 9780130617927 ©2003  Prentice Hall

Cite this work

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

  • Yuanchen Chu, Daniel F Mejia, Fan Chen, James Fonseca, Michael Povolotskyi, Gerhard Klimeck (2020), "Crystal Viewer Tool," https://nanohub.org/resources/crystal_viewer. (DOI: 10.21981/K3EK-R382).

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