A Theory of Deviation from Close Packing in Hexagonal Metal Crystals
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1952-09-11Abstract
A mechanism is proposed to show how the Fermi surface interacts with the Brillouin zone boundaries. The direction and relative magnitude of the variation of the c/a ratio for hexagonal crystals from the ideal value for close packing are predicted as a function of the electron-atom ratio, and these predictions are compared with values of lattice parameters which are reported in the literature.
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Reprinted from The Physical Review, Vol. 89, No. 1, 282-294, January 1, 1953 This paper was written as a Ph.D. thesis for the Department of Physics, University of Chicago