Feature-Based Crystal Construction in Computer-Aided Nano-Design Available to Purchase

Providing nano engineers and scientists efficient and easy-to-use tools to create geometry conformations that have minimum energies is highly desirable in material design. Recently we developed a periodic surface model to assist the construction of nano structures parametrically for computeraided nano-design. In this paper, we present a feature-based approach for crystal construction. The proposed approach starts to create models of basic features by the aide of periodic surfaces followed by operations between basic features. The goal is to introduce a rapid construction method for complex crystal structures.