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moirepy.layers.KagomeLayer

Bases: Layer

A Kagome lattice with three atoms per unit cell (types "A", "B", "C").

The Kagome lattice is a corner-sharing triangular tiling. Each atom type has four nearest neighbours. Lattice vectors are [1, 0] and [0.5, sqrt(3)/2].

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
pbc bool

Periodic boundary conditions. Default is False.

False
study_proximity int

Number of supercell shells for the neighbour search. Default is 1.

1

Examples:

>>> from moirepy import KagomeLayer
>>> layer = KagomeLayer()