Mighell Alan D
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8520.
J Res Natl Inst Stand Technol. 2002 Oct 1;107(5):425-9. doi: 10.6028/jres.107.036. Print 2002 Sep-Oct.
Lattice-matching techniques have proved to be extremely effective for the identification of unknown crystalline materials. A commonly employed lattice-matching strategy is based on matching the reduced cell of an unknown against a database of known materials represented by their respective standard reduced cells. The success of the method relies on the fact that the lattice or the lattice plus chemical information (e.g., element types) is highly characteristic of a material-like a fingerprint. Because of its intrinsic power, the procedure has many and diverse applications-in materials characterization, in nano-technology, in epitaxial growth, in materials design, etc. An especially fruitful role for the method is in the journal publication process as the quality of the scientific literature can be enhanced. The focus herein is on the major role that lattice matching can play in the prevention of inadvertent duplicate publications of the same structure and in the determination of key cross-references.
晶格匹配技术已被证明在识别未知晶体材料方面极其有效。一种常用的晶格匹配策略是将未知物的约化晶胞与由各自标准约化晶胞表示的已知材料数据库进行匹配。该方法的成功依赖于这样一个事实，即晶格或晶格加化学信息（例如元素类型）是材料的高度特征——就像指纹一样。由于其内在的力量，该程序有许多不同的应用——在材料表征、纳米技术、外延生长、材料设计等方面。该方法一个特别富有成效的作用是在期刊出版过程中，因为可以提高科学文献的质量。本文的重点是晶格匹配在防止同一结构的无意重复发表以及确定关键交叉引用方面可以发挥的主要作用。
