The Brillouin zone reference article from the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 (provided by Fixed Reference: snapshots of Wikipedia from wikipedia.org)

Brillouin zone

In mathematics and solid state physics the first Brillouin zone is defined as the Wigner-Seitz primitive cell in the reciprocal lattice.

Another definition is: the set of points in k space that can be reached from the origin without crossing any Bragg plane.

General: the nth Brillouin zone consist of the set of points that can be reached from the origin by crossing n-1 Bragg planes.

This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This is the "Brillouin zone" reference article from the English Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. See also our Disclaimer.