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Part of
MATERIALS SCIENCE
& A Learner’s Guide
ENGINEERING
AN INTRODUCTORY E-BOOK
Anandh Subramaniam & Kantesh Balani
Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur- 208016
Email: [email protected], URL: home.iitk.ac.in/~anandh
http://home.iitk.ac.in/~anandh/E-book.htm
Motifs
 Basis is a synonym for Motif
 Any entity which is associated with each lattice point is a motif
 This entity could be a geometrical object or a physical property
(or a combination)
 This could be a shape like a pentagon (in 2D), cube (in 3D) or
something more complicated
MOTIFS
 Typically in atomic crystals an
 atom (or group of atoms) Geometrical Entity or a combination Physical Property
Shapes, atoms, ions…
Magnetization vector, field vortices,
 ions (or groups of ions)
light intensity…
 molecules (or group of Molecules)
associated with each lattice point constitutes a motif
 The motif should be positioned identically at each lattice point (i.e.
should not be rotated or distorted from point to point)
Note: If the atom has spherical symmetry rotations would not matter!
Revision:
MOTIFS
Geometrical Entity or a combination
Shapes, atoms, ions…
Physical Property
Magnetization vector, field vortices,
light intensity…
 What is the role of the symmetry of the motif on the symmetry of the crystal?
Examples of Motifs
Atomic* Motifs
General Motifs
1D

In ideal mathematical and real crystals
Atom
Ar
(in Ar crystal- molecular crystal)
2D
Group of atoms
+
Ion
(Different atoms)
Cu+, Fe++
(in Cu or Fe crystal)

3D
Group of ions
+
Na+Cl
Group of atoms
(Same atom)
C in diamond
(in NaCl crystal)
Virtually anything can be a motif!
* The term is used to include atom based entities like ions and molecules
 Viruses can be crystallized and the motif now is an individual virus (a entity
much larger than the usual atomic motifs)
A complete virus is sitting as a motif on each lattice
position (instead of atoms or ions!)
 We get a crystal of ‘virus’
Crystal of Tobacco Mosaic Virus [1]
[1] Crystal Physics, G.S. Zhdanov, Oliver & Boyd, Ediburgh, 1965
 In the 2D finite crystal as below, the motif is a ~triangular pillar which is obtained by focused ion
beam lithography of a thermally evaporated Gold film 200nm in thickness (on glass substrate).
 The size of the motif is ~200nm.
Scale:
~200nm
Unit cell
Micrograph courtesy: Prof. S.A. Ramakrishna & Dr. Jeyadheepan, Department of Physics, I.I.T. Kanpur
 2D finite crystal.
 Crystalline regions in nano-porous alumina → this is like a honeycomb
 Sample produced by anodizing Al.
Scale:
~200nm
Pore
Photo Courtesy- Dr. Sujatha Mahapatra (Unpublished)
Chip of the LED light sensing assembly of a mouse
 3D Finite crystal of metallic balls → motif is one brown metallic ball and one metallic ball
(uncolored) [lattice is FCC].
Scale:
~mm
 Crystals have been synthesized with silver nanocrystals as the motif in an FCC lattice. Each lattice
point is occupied by a silver nanocrystal having the shape of a truncated octahedron- a
tetrakaidecahedron (with orientational and positional order).
 The orientation relation between the particles and the lattice is as follows: [110]lattice || [110]Ag,
[001]lattice || [110]Ag
Ag nanocrystal
as the motif
 Why do we need to consider such arbitrary motifs?
 Aren’t motifs always made of atomic entities?
 It is true that the normal crystal we consider in materials science (e.g. Cu, NaCl, Fullerene
crystal etc.) are made out of atomic entities, but the definition has general application and
utilities
 Consider an array of metallic balls
(ball bearing balls) in a truncated
(finite) 3D crystal. Microwaves can
be diffracted from this array.
The laws of diffraction are identical to diffraction of Xrays from crystals with atomic entities
(e.g. NaCl, Au, Si, Diamond etc.)
Using Bragg’s equation
n   2 d Sin( )
1(3)  2(4.5) Sin(1 )  1  19.47
2(3)  2(4.5) Sin(2 )  2  41.81
3(3)  2(4.5) Sin(3 )  3  90
Crystal made of metal
balls and not atomic
entities!
 Example of complicated motifs include:
 Opaque and transparent regions in a photo-resist material which acts like an element in
opto-electronics
 A physical property can also be a motif decorating a lattice point
 Experiments have been carried out wherein matter beams (which behave like waves) have
been diffracted from ‘LASER Crystals’!
 Matter being diffracted from electromagnetic radiation!
=
+
Lattice
Motif
Is now a physical property
(electromagnetic flux density)
An actual LASER crystal
created by making LASER
beams visible by smoke
Scale:
~cm
Things are little
approximate in real life!
 The motif could be a combination of a geometrical entity with a
physical property
 E.g. Fe atoms with a magnetic moment (below Curie temperature).
 Fe at Room Temperature (RT) is a BCC crystal*  based on atomic position only.
 At RT Fe is ferromagnetic (if the specimen is not magnetized then the magnetic domains are randomly oriented with
magnetic moments aligned parallel within the domain).
* Mono-atomic decoration of the BCC lattice
AMORPHOUS
combination of the
magnetic moment with
the Fe ‘atom’
CRYSTALLINE
 The direction of easy magnetization in Fe is along [001] direction.
 The motif can be taken to be the Fe atom along with the magnetic moment vector (a
combination of a geometrical entity along with a physical property).
 Below Curie temperature , the symmetry of the structure is lowered (becomes tetragonal)
 if we consider this combination of the magnetic moment with the ‘atom’.
 Above Curie temperature the magnetic spins are randomly oriented
 If we ignore the magnetic moments the crystal can be considered a BCC crystal
 If we take into account the magnetic moment vectors the structures is amorphous!!!
 Wigner crystal
 Electrons repel each other and can get ordered to this repusive interaction. This is a Wigner crystal!
(here we ignore the atomic enetites).
Ordering of Nuclear spins
 We had seen that electron spin (magnetic moment arising from the spin) can get ordered
(e.g. ferromagnetic ordering of spins in solid Fe at room temperature)
 Similarly nuclear spin can also get ordered.