Quasicrystals
A Primer
Second Edition
C. Janot
Price: £59.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-856551-2
Publication date: 28 August 1997
432 pages, 256 b/w figures, 234x156 mm
Series: Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials number 50
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| Reviews |
| - 'the book deserves wide distribution among all solid state scientists because it is dealing with rather new matter not yet considered in conventional textbooks' - P. Paufler, Cryst. Res. Technol. 31 1996
- 'Quasicrystals, Second Edition is an excellent, mathematical sophisticated primer to a new and very interesting state of matter.' - Library of Science, November 1997
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| Description | | - The other books presently available on this topic are conference proceedings or advanced reviews in
- which basic principles are not covered. By contrast, this book introduces the concept of quasicrystals
- and readers can test their understanding by solving problems at the end of each chapter.
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Review of 1/e "... an excellent primer for all who are interested in the fascinating field of quasicrystals." Nature
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Review of 2/e "... deserves wide distribution among all solid state scientists..."
Crystal Research and Technology
| | 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. |
Readership: Physicists, researchers in condensed matter wishing to learn about quasicrystals, graduate students in the field.
| Contents |
1.
How to Fill Space with Atoms in Condensed Matter
2.
Real Quasicrystals: Preparation and Characterization
3.
High-dimensional Crystallography
4.
Where are the Atoms?
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Phonons, Phasons, and Dislocations in Quasicrystals
6.
A Little More about the Physics of Quasicrystals
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| Authors, editors,
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C. Janot, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble
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