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In crystallography, the terms crystal system, crystal family, and lattice system each refer to one of several classes of space groups, lattices, point groups, or crystals. Informally, two crystals tend to be in the same crystal system if they have similar symmetries, though there are many exceptions to this.
Crystal systems, crystal families, and lattice systems are similar but slightly different, and there is widespread confusion between them: in particular the trigonal crystal system is often confused with the rhombohedral lattice system, and the term "crystal system" is sometimes used to mean "lattice system" or "crystal family".
Space groups and crystals are divided into 7 crystal systems according to their point groups, and into 7 lattice systems according to their Bravais lattices. Five of the crystal systems are essentially the same as five of the lattice systems, but the hexagonal and trigonal crystal systems differ from the hexagonal and rhombohedral lattice systems. The six crystal families are formed by combining the hexagonal and trigonal crystal systems into one hexagonal family, in order to eliminate this confusion.
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A lattice system is a class of lattices with the same point group. In three dimensions there are seven lattice systems: triclinic, monoclinic, orthorhombic, tetragonal, rhombohedral, hexagonal, and cubic. The lattice system of a crystal or space group is determined by its lattice but not always by its point group.
A crystal system is a class of point groups. Two point groups are placed in the same crystal system if the sets of possible lattice systems of their space groups are the same. For many point groups there is only one possible lattice system, and in these cases the crystal system corresponds to a lattice system and is given the same name. However, for the five point groups in the trigonal crystal class there are two possible lattice systems for their point groups: rhombohedral or hexagonal. In three dimensions there are seven crystal systems: triclinic, monoclinic, orthorhombic, tetragonal, trigonal, hexagonal, and cubic. The crystal system of a crystal or space group is determined by its point group but not always by its lattice.
A crystal family also consists of point groups and is formed by combining crystal systems whenever two crystal systems have space groups with the same lattice. In three dimensions a crystal family is almost the same as a crystal system (or lattice system), except that the hexagonal and trigonal crystal systems are combined into one hexagonal family. In three dimensions there are six crystal families: triclinic, monoclinic, orthorhombic, tetragonal, hexagonal, and cubic. The crystal family of a crystal or space group is determined by either its point group or its lattice, and crystal families are the smallest collections of point groups with this property.
In dimensions less than three there is no essential difference between crystal systems, crystal families, and lattice systems. There are 1 in dimension 0, 1 in dimension 1, and 4 in dimension 2, called oblique, rectangular, square, and hexagonal.
The relation between three-dimensional crystal families, crystal systems, and lattice systems is shown in the following table:
Crystal family | Crystal system | Required symmetries of point group | Point groups | Space groups | Bravais lattices | Lattice system |
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Triclinic | None | 2 | 2 | 1 | Triclinic | |
Monoclinic | 1 twofold axis of rotation or 1 mirror plane | 3 | 13 | 2 | Monoclinic | |
Orthorhombic | 3 twofold axes of rotation or 1 twofold axis of rotation and two mirror planes. | 3 | 59 | 4 | Orthorhombic | |
Tetragonal | 1 fourfold axis of rotation | 7 | 68 | 2 | Tetragonal | |
Hexagonal | Trigonal | 1 threefold axis of rotation | 5 | 7 | 1 | Rhombohedral |
18 | 1 | Hexagonal | ||||
Hexagonal | 1 sixfold axis of rotation | 7 | 27 | |||
Cubic | 4 threefold axes of rotation | 5 | 36 | 3 | Cubic | |
Total: 6 | 7 | 32 | 230 | 14 | 7 |
The 7 crystal systems consist of 32 crystal classes (corresponding to the 32 crystallographic point groups) as shown in the following table.
crystal family | crystal system | point group / crystal class | Schönflies | Hermann-Mauguin | Orbifold | Coxeter | Point symmetry | Order | Group structure |
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triclinic | triclinic-pedial | C1 | 1 | 11 | [ ]+ | enantiomorphic polar | 1 | trivial | |
triclinic-pinacoidal | Ci | 1 | 1x | [2,1+] | centrosymmetric | 2 | cyclic | ||
monoclinic | monoclinic-sphenoidal | C2 | 2 | 22 | [2,2]+ | enantiomorphic polar | 2 | cyclic | |
monoclinic-domatic | Cs | m | *11 | [ ] | polar | 2 | cyclic | ||
monoclinic-prismatic | C2h | 2/m | 2* | [2,2+] | centrosymmetric | 4 | 2×cyclic | ||
orthorhombic | orthorhombic-sphenoidal | D2 | 222 | 222 | [2,2]+ | enantiomorphic | 4 | dihedral | |
orthorhombic-pyramidal | C2v | mm2 | *22 | [2] | polar | 4 | dihedral | ||
orthorhombic-bipyramidal | D2h | mmm | *222 | [2,2] | centrosymmetric | 8 | 2×dihedral | ||
tetragonal | tetragonal-pyramidal | C4 | 4 | 44 | [4]+ | enantiomorphic polar | 4 | cyclic | |
tetragonal-disphenoidal | S4 | 4 | 2x | [2+,2] | non-centrosymmetric | 4 | cyclic | ||
tetragonal-dipyramidal | C4h | 4/m | 4* | [2,4+] | centrosymmetric | 8 | 2×cyclic | ||
tetragonal-trapezoidal | D4 | 422 | 422 | [2,4]+ | enantiomorphic | 8 | dihedral | ||
ditetragonal-pyramidal | C4v | 4mm | *44 | [4] | polar | 8 | dihedral | ||
tetragonal-scalenoidal | D2d | 42m or 4m2 | 2*2 | [2+,4] | non-centrosymmetric | 8 | dihedral | ||
ditetragonal-dipyramidal | D4h | 4/mmm | *422 | [2,4] | centrosymmetric | 16 | 2×dihedral | ||
hexagonal | trigonal | trigonal-pyramidal | C3 | 3 | 33 | [3]+ | enantiomorphic polar | 3 | cyclic |
rhombohedral | S6 (C3i) | 3 | 3x | [2+,3+] | centrosymmetric | 6 | cyclic | ||
trigonal-trapezoidal | D3 | 32 or 321 or 312 | 322 | [3,2]+ | enantiomorphic | 6 | dihedral | ||
ditrigonal-pyramidal | C3v | 3m or 3m1 or 31m | *33 | [3] | polar | 6 | dihedral | ||
ditrigonal-scalahedral | D3d | 3m or 3m1 or 31m | 2*3 | [2+,6] | centrosymmetric | 12 | dihedral | ||
hexagonal | hexagonal-pyramidal | C6 | 6 | 66 | [6]+ | enantiomorphic polar | 6 | cyclic | |
trigonal-dipyramidal | C3h | 6 | 3* | [2,3+] | non-centrosymmetric | 6 | cyclic | ||
hexagonal-dipyramidal | C6h | 6/m | 6* | [2,6+] | centrosymmetric | 12 | 2×cyclic | ||
hexagonal-trapezoidal | D6 | 622 | 622 | [2,6]+ | enantiomorphic | 12 | dihedral | ||
dihexagonal-pyramidal | C6v | 6mm | *66 | [6] | polar | 12 | dihedral | ||
ditrigonal-dipyramidal | D3h | 6m2 or 62m | *322 | [2,3] | non-centrosymmetric | 12 | dihedral | ||
dihexagonal-dipyramidal | D6h | 6/mmm | *622 | [2,6] | centrosymmetric | 24 | 2×dihedral | ||
cubic | tetrahedral | T | 23 | 332 | [3,3]+ | enantiomorphic | 12 | alternating | |
hextetrahedral | Td | 43m | *332 | [3,3] | non-centrosymmetric | 24 | symmetric | ||
diploidal | Th | m3 | 3*2 | [3+,4] | centrosymmetric | 24 | 2×alternating | ||
gyroidal | O | 432 | 432 | [4,3]+ | enantiomorphic | 24 | symmetric | ||
hexoctahedral | Oh | m3m | *432 | [4,3] | centrosymmetric | 48 | 2×symmetric |
Point symmetry can be thought of in the following fashion: consider the coordinates which make up the lattice, and project them all through a single point, so that (x,y,z) becomes (-x,-y,-z). This is the 'reciprocal lattice.' If the lattice and reciprocal lattice are identical, then the crystal is centrosymmetric. If the reciprocal lattice can be rotated to align with the lattice, then the crystal is non-centrosymmetric. If the reciprocal lattice can't be rotated to align with the lattice, that is, with some elements which are a mirror image of the lattice, then the crystal is enantiomorphic.[1] If rotation of the original lattice reveals an axis where the two ends are different, then the crystal is polar. H2O is a common example of a polar molecule.
The crystal structures of chiral biological molecules (such as protein structures) can only occur in the 11 enantiomorphic point groups (biological molecules are frequently chiral). The protein assemblies themselves may have symmetries other than those given above, because they are not intrinsically restricted by the Crystallographic restriction theorem. For example the Rad52 DNA binding protein has an 11-fold rotational symmetry (in human), however, it must form crystals in one of the 11 enantiomorphic point groups given above.
The distribution of the 14 Bravais lattice types into 7 lattice systems is given in the following table.
The 7 lattice systems | The 14 Bravais Lattices | |||
triclinic (parallelepiped) | ||||
monoclinic (right prism with parallelogram base; here seen from above) | simple | base-centered | ||
orthorhombic (cuboid) | simple | base-centered | body-centered | face-centered |
tetragonal (square cuboid) | simple | body-centered | ||
rhombohedral (trigonal trapezohedron) |
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hexagonal (centered regular hexagon) | ||||
cubic (isometric; cube) |
simple | body-centered | face-centered | |
In geometry and crystallography, a Bravais lattice is a category of symmetry groups for translational symmetry in three directions, or correspondingly, a category of translation lattices.
Such symmetry groups consist of translations by vectors of the form
where n1, n2, and n3 are integers and a1, a2, and a3 are three non-coplanar vectors, called primitive vectors.
These lattices are classified by space group of the translation lattice itself; there are 14 Bravais lattices in three dimensions; each can apply in one lattice system only. They represent the maximum symmetry a structure with the translational symmetry concerned can have.
All crystalline materials must, by definition fit in one of these arrangements (not including quasicrystals).
For convenience a Bravais lattice is depicted by a unit cell which is a factor 1, 2, 3 or 4 larger than the primitive cell. Depending on the symmetry of a crystal or other pattern, the fundamental domain is again smaller, up to a factor 48.
The Bravais lattices were studied by Moritz Ludwig Frankenheim (1801–1869), in 1842, who found that there were 15 Bravais lattices. This was corrected to 14 by A. Bravais in 1848.
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