Christian Janot

Quasicrystals

A Primer

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This primer provides a descriptive approach to the subject of quasicrystals 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780199657407
• ISBN-10: 0199657408
• Artikelnr.: 35482142

Autorenporträt

Christian Janot, Reader, Institute Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France

Inhaltsangabe

1: How to fill space with atoms in condensed matter states
2: Real quasicrystals: preparation and characterization
3: High-dimensional crystallography
4: Where are the atoms?
5: Phonons, phasons, and dislocations in quasicrystals
6: A little more about the physics of quasicrystals