Quasicrystals : a primer
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Quasicrystals : a primer
（Monographs on the physics and chemistry of materials, 50）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1997, c1994
2nd ed
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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 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.
Table of Contents
- How to fill space with atoms in condensed matter
- Real quasicrystals: preparation and characterization
- High-dimensional crystallography
- Where are the atoms?
- Phonons, phasons, and dislocations in quasicrystals
- A little more about the physics of quasicrystals
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