Quasicrystals: A Primer
by
C. Janot
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0198513895
ISBN-13
9780198513896
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 1st, 1992
Print length
334 Pages
Weight
654 grams
Dimensions
24.20 x 16.50 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
Condensed matter physics (liquid state & solid state physics)CrystallographyMaterials science
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Quasicrystals have unusual symmetry properties. The book describes where the atoms are and how this new state of matter behaves. Peculiar aspects, such as large electrical resistivity, are qualitatively explained.
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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