FCC structure and its neighbours

face centered cubic (fcc) close packed structure

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second layer -6 neighbours (snn, second nn)

third layer -24 neighbours

first layer -12 neighbours (nn, nearest neighbours)

seventh layer – 48 neighbours

FCC structure and its neighbours

Mac

iej U

rban

iak,

ww

w.ifm

pan.

pozn

an.p

l/~ur

bani

ak

13th layer – 72 neighbours

FCC structure and its neighbours

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Maciej Urbaniak, www.ifmpan.poznan.pl/~urbaniak

Fcc structure:

nn 12

nnn 6

snnn 24

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