International
Tables for
Crystallography
Volume E
Subperiodic groups
Edited by V. Kopský and D. B. Litvin

International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. E. ch. 1.2, p. 9   | 1 | 2 |

Table 1.2.6.1 

V. Kopskýa and D. B. Litvinb*

a Department of Physics, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, and Institute of Physics, The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Na Slovance 2, PO Box 24, 180 40 Prague 8, Czech Republic, and bDepartment of Physics, Penn State Berks Campus, The Pennsylvania State University, PO Box 7009, Reading, PA 19610-6009, USA
Correspondence e-mail:  u3c@psu.edu

Table 1.2.6.1 | top | pdf |
Distinct Hermann–Mauguin symbols for monoclinic/rectangular and orthorhombic/rectangular layer groups in different settings

Layer group Setting symbol
(abc) ([b\bar{a}c])
Hermann–Mauguin symbol
L8 p 211 p 121
L9 p 2111 p 1211
L10 c 211 c 121
L11 p m 11 p 1m1
L12 p b 11 p 1a1
L13 c m 11 c 1m1
L14 p 2/m11 p 12/m1
L15 p 21/m11 p 121/m1
L16 p 2/b11 p 12/a1
L17 p 21/b11 p 121/a1
L18 c 2/m11 c 12/m1
L20 p 2122 p 2212
L24 p ma 2 p bm 2
L27 p m 2m p 2mm
L28 pm 21b p 21ma
L29 pb 21m p 21am
L30 p b 2b p 2aa
L31 p m 2a p 2mb
L32 pm 21n p 21mn
L33 pb 21a p 21ab
L34 p b 2n p 2an
L35 c m 2m c 2mm
L36 c m 2a c 2mb
L38 pmaa pbmb
L40 pmam pbmm
L41 pmma pmmb
L42 pman pbmn
L43 pbaa pbab
L45 pbma pmab