Crystal Viewer Tool

Visualize different crystal lattices and planes

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Archive Version 3.0.2
Published on 16 Jan 2015 All versions

doi:10.4231/D3VT1GQ8M cite this

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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.

For problems with this tool, please submit a support ticket (click on "Need Help?" button in upper right part of this page). To submit a wish for improvements, please click on the Wishlist tab above.


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.


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

 

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)

 

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, James Fonseca, Michael Povolotskyi, Gerhard Klimeck (2020), "Crystal Viewer Tool," https://nanohub.org/resources/crystal_viewer. (DOI: 10.4231/D3VT1GQ8M).

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Tags

  1. ANTSY
  2. Bi2Te3
  3. Black Phosphorous
  4. Bravais lattice
  5. buckyballs
  6. carbon nanoribbons
  7. carbon nanotubes
  8. Crystal Planes
  9. crystals
  10. Crystal Viewer lab
  11. graphene
  12. materials science
  13. Miller Indices
  14. Miller Planes
  15. MoS2
  16. nanoelectronics
  17. NCN Group - Materials Science
  18. NCN@Purdue Supported
  19. SrTiO3
  20. TMD
  21. topological insulators