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Unit Cells, Miller Indices & Bragg's Law of X-Ray Diffraction

Solid materials are organized into 14 distinct geometric space groups called Bravais Lattices (such as Face-Centered Cubic [FCC], Body-Centered Cubic [BCC], and Hexagonal Close-Packed [HCP]). In 1913, William Henry and William Lawrence Bragg proved that X-rays with wavelengths comparable to atomic spacing (lambda ≈ 0.1 nm) undergo constructive interference when scattered by parallel crystal lattice planes. Bragg's Law relates wavelength, interplanar spacing d, and scattering angle theta: n * lambda = 2 * d * sin(theta).

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