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Brillouin zone
The Brillouin zone, introduced by Léon Brillouin in the 1930s, is a primitive cell of a crystal's reciprocal lattice, central to electronic band theory, lattice vibrations, and diffraction.
Reciprocal lattice
The reciprocal lattice, also known as reciprocal space or the inverse lattice, is the Fourier transform of a crystal's direct lattice and the setting for describing diffraction.
Structure factor
The structure factor, or static structure factor, is a complex function giving the amplitude and phase of waves diffracted from a crystal, central to structure analysis by diffraction methods.