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Wigner-Seitz cell

  
   
A specific choice of primitive unit cell for a Bravais lattice. It is constructed by selecting a lattice point and taking the volume closer to that lattice point than to any other lattice point. Named after Eugene Paul Wigner (1902- 95) and Frederick Seitz (b. 1911).  

 

 

  
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