Quasicrystals: A Primer (Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials)

Janot, C.

ISBN 10: 0198565518 / ISBN 13: 9780198565512

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1997

Beschreibung

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780198565512-2-2

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Quasicrystals: A Primer (Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials)
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0198565518
• ISBN-13: 9780198565512
• Einband: Softcover
• Auflage: 2. Auflage
• Zustand: Very good

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Inhaltsangabe

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 is intended to provide 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. Following the success of the first and second editions the opportunity has been taken to reprint the second edition in paperback at a more modest price.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Professor Christian Janot, Institut Max von Laue-Paul Langevin, Avenue des Martyrs, B.P. 156, 38042 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France. Tel: +33 04 76 20 73 27. Fax: +33 04 76 48 39 06. Email: janot@ill.fr