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GATE Solid State Physics: Elements of crystallography – Previous Year Questions

4 GATE previous year questions on Elements of crystallography (Solid State Physics, Physics) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2023 PH Q18 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – A compound consists of three ions X, Y and Z. The Z ions are arranged in an FCC arrangement. The X ions occupy 1 6 of the tetrahedral voids and the Y…
  2. GATE 2023 PH Q22 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Graphene is a two dimensional material, in which carbon atoms are arranged in a honeycomb lattice with lattice constant a. As shown in the figure, a 1…
  3. GATE 2025 PH Q11 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – For a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice with lattice constant a, the atomic density is
  4. GATE 2025 PH Q12 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Consider a crystal that has a basis of one atom. Its primitive vectors are a 1=a i, a 2=a j, a 3= a2( i+ j+ k), where i, j, k are Cartesian unit…