Help with diamond/silicon crystal structure

i wanted to make a silicon crystal structure. i imported the .cif file of Si and it created a primitive unit cell, after creating a supercell of 3x3x3 it just gave me 9 atoms of Si, but not in the structure of diamond lattice, i am new to the program and might be missing some info. would like some help. here’s the same thing i tried with .cif file of diamond.


this is how its looking like and not like the image below:
https://msestudent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Diamond-Cubic.svg
is this supposed to be this way?

When you import the crystal structure, you will get the symmetry unique atoms. Before creating a supercell, you should “Fill Unit Cell” (under the Crystal menu).

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