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Miller Indices for directions


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• Miller Indices.

MILLER INDICES

Atoms/points Direction Plane


.mnp. [uvw] (hkl)
Remember 3

• Indices is plural of index.


• Negative values are indicated by bar over the number.
e. g. [101]
• Miller Indices are never in a fractions.
• Miller Indices don’t have comma unless double integer.
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Entity Symbol for single entity Symbol for family


Atoms .xyz. :xyz:
Direction [uvw] <uvw>
Plane (hkl) {hkl}
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Procedure when direction is given


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Note about negative co-ordinates 8

• x, y and z axis can be represented by a negative sign.


• It represented direction in opposite to the original
direction.
Y
Z

-X

Y
-Y X -Y
X
-Z
-X
How to choose negative co-ordinates? 9

• The cubic unit cell has 8 corners. Any corner can be


taken as a origin.
• Move the origin while choosing such that the negative
co-ordinate should lie inside the unit cell.
• This will save our efforts to draw more than one unit
cells to show negative Miller indices.
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O3
O4
Z O2
O5
-X

Y O
-Y
X
-Z O1
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Y O

1 Co-ordinates of tail 0,0,0

2 Co-ordinates of head 1,0,0

3 Head-tail 1,0,0 - 0,0,0

4 Clear fractions --

5 Enclose in [] [100]
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Z
O
Y

1 Co-ordinates of tail 1,1,1

2 Co-ordinates of head 0,0,0

3 Head-tail 0,0,0 -1,1,1

4 Clear fractions --

5 Enclose in [] [111]
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Z
O
Y

1 Co-ordinates of tail 1/2,1,0

2 Co-ordinates of head 0,0,1

3 Head-tail 0,0,1 -1/2,1,0

4 Clear fractions -1,-2,2

5 Enclose in [] [122]
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Procedure when MI is given


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2.
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Z
O
1 Choose the origin Y
2 Mark the respective axis
X
3 Join origin and marked
point
4 Show vector
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O
Z
1 Choose the origin
2 Mark the respective axis
Y
3 Join origin and marked
point X
4 Show vector

Remember: If any indices is more than1divide by the largest


number to smaller numbers and then show the direction
e.g. [112] ➔ 1/2,1/2,1
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