Crystal Lattice Structures:	Creation Date: 20 Apr 2002
	Last Modified: 25 Feb 2007

The BN (B_k) Crystal Structure

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• This is the structure of BN found in Wyckoff. The Strukturbericht and Structure Reports give BN the B12 structure.
• Kulkarni et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 105502 (2006)] found this structure in ZnO nanowires.

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• Prototype: BN
• Pearson Symbol: hP4
• Strukturbericht Designation: B_k
• Space Group: P6₃/mmc (Cartesian and lattice coordinate listings available)
• Number: 194
• Other compounds with this structure: ZnO nanowires
• Primitive Vectors:

  A1	=	½ a X - ½ 31/2 a Y
  A2	=	½ a X + ½ 31/2 a Y
  A3	=	c Z

• Basis Vectors:

  B1	=	1/3 A1 + 2/3 A2 + ¼ A3	=	½ a X + 12-½ a Y + ¼ c Z	(2c)	(B)
  B2	=	2/3 A1 + 1/3 A2 + ¾ A3	=	½ a X - 12-½ a Y + ¾ c Z	(2c)	(B)
  B3	=	2/3 A1 + 1/3 A2 + ¼ A3	=	½ a X - 12-½ a Y + ¼ c Z	(2d)	(N)
  B4	=	1/3 A1 + 2/3 A2 + ¾ A3	=	½ a X + 12-½ a Y + ¾ c Z	(2d)	(N)

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This is a mirror of an old page created at the Naval Research Laboratory Center for Computational Materials Science The maintained successor is hosted at http://www.aflowlib.org/CrystalDatabase/ and published as M. Mehl et al., Comput. Mater. Sci. 136 (Supp.), S1-S828 (2017).