Quasicrystals: A Primer Hardback
by C. (Professor, Professor, Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble, France) Janot
Part of the Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials series
Hardback
Description
In 1984 physicists discovered a monster in the world of crystallography, a structure that appeared to contain five-fold symmetry axes, which cannot exist in strictly periodic structures.
Such quasi-periodic structures became known as quasicrystals.
A previously formulated theory in terms of higher dimensional space groups was applied to them and new alloy phases were prepared which exhibited the properties expected from this model more closely.
Thus many of the early controversies were dissolved. This primer provides a descriptive approach to the subject for those coming to it for the first time.
The various practical, experimental, and theoretical topics are dealt with in an accessible style.
The book is completed by problem sets and there is a computer program that generates a Penrose lattice.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:334 pages, halftones, numerous line drawings
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:01/10/1992
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198513896
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:334 pages, halftones, numerous line drawings
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:01/10/1992
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198513896
