| Reviews |
| - 'Timeless, because it presents the unchanging mathematical background to crystallography.' - David Watkin, University of Oxford
- 'An approach with many advantages.' - Peter Paufler, Technical University of Dresden
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| Description | | - Clearly presents the process of crystal structure determination.
- Pedagogical and self-contained.
- Includes a detailed discussion of crystallographic symmetry.
- Places emphasis on methods to solve the phase problem.
| | This concise book is for chemists, material scientists, and physicists who deal with description of crystalline matter and the determination of its structure, and would like to gain more understanding of the principles involved. The main purpose of the book is to introduce the reader to principles of crystallographic symmetry, to discuss some traditional, as well as modern, experimental
techniques, to formulate the phase problem of crystallography, and present in some detail the methods for its indirect and direct solution which are indispensable for further work. The book also contains discussions of structure-factor statistics, of value for resolving space-group ambiguities, and atomic displacement parameters which form an inseparable part of the structure. A discussion of the
refinement of structural parameters, conventional, constrained and restrained, concludes the book. Derivations are, as far as possible, self contained and wherever mathematical detail might disrupt the line of reasoning the reader is referred to one of four appendices present in the book. The book is of course valuable for students of crystallography at a graduate and upper undergraduate level. No
previous course on crystallography is a prerequisite for graduates in the above fields. |
Readership: Advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and professionals in crystallography, chemistry, materials science and physics.
| Contents |
1.
Symmetry in Crystals: Fundamentals
2.
Point Groups and Lattice Types
3.
Space-Group Symmetry
4.
X-ray Diffraction Techniques
5.
The Structure Factor and the Electron Density
6.
The Patterson Function
7.
Structure-Factor Statistics
8.
Direct Methods
9.
Atomic Displacement Parameters
10.
Refinement of Structural Parameters
Appendices
Some Geometrical Considerations
Fundamentals of Tensor Notation
Basic Notions from the Theory of Probability
The Discrete Fourier Transform Method
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Uri Shmueli, Tel Aviv University
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