This is a clear and comprehensive introduction to the topics of crystallography and diffraction for undergraduate and beginning graduate students and lecturers in physics, chemistry, materials, and earth sciences. It shows how crystal structures may be built up from simple ideas of atomic packing and co-ordination, and develops the concepts of crystal symmetry, point and space groups by way of two-dimensional examples of patterns and tilings. The concept of the reciprocal lattice is explained in simple terms and its importance in an understanding o light, x-ray and electron diffraction. Finally, the book covers practical examples of the applications of these techniques and describes the importance of diffraction in the performance of optical instruments.
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"[T]he clear and comprehensive nature of this text will ... appeal to entry level undergraduates and more experienced researches ..."--Microscopy and Analysis
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Dr. Christopher Hammond, Senior Lecturer, Department of Materials, University of Leeds.
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This review is from: The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction (International Union of Crystallography Texts on Crystallography) (Paperback)
Very nice book, very comprehensive, excellent quality of pictures. Can be recommended as a very gentle introduction to crystallography and diffraction. Probably not so useful for more advanced students.
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This review is from: The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction (International Union of Crystallography Texts on Crystallography) (Paperback)
For an undergrad reader, Hammond develops the theory and explains the experiments you can do in crytallography. The theory of scattering from a single crystal explains the diffraction patterns. The latter are what you observe, and the text shows how you can work back from these to deduce what the underlying crystal structure might be.There are variations on this approach. Especially the powder method, where you do not have a single crystal, but a powder of microcrystals. Which can be visualised as spinning the Bravais lattice around its origin, to give the diffraction patterns. More recent observations like quasicrystals are also covered. A good introduction to crystallography.
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This review is from: The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction (International Union of Crystallography Texts on Crystallography) (Paperback)
I found this book to be a very nice introduction of X-Ray Crystallography. There is just enough detail so that it is not overwhelming, but you can still learn quite a bit from this book.
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The beautiful hexagonal patterns of snowflakes, the plane faces and hard faceted shapes of minerals and the bright cleavage fracture surfaces of brittle iron have long been recognized as external evidence of an internal order-evidence, that is, of the patterns or arrangements of the underlying building blocks. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
zone axis symbols, seventeen plane groups, reflecting sphere construction, zero order minimum, five plane lattices, quasiperiodic crystals, central lattice point, counterchange patterns, plane point groups, ccp structure, reciprocal lattice section, inversion tetrad, special equivalent positions, fourteen space lattices, perpendicular diads, translational symmetry elements, stereographic poles, structure factor equation, diad axes, same point group symmetry, glide lines, point group symbol, texture goniometer, reciprocal lattice unit cell, reciprocal lattice points Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The beautiful hexagonal patterns of snowflakes, the plane faces and hard faceted shapes of minerals and the bright cleavage fracture surfaces of brittle iron have long been recognized as external evidence of an internal order-evidence, that is, of the patterns or arrangements of the underlying building blocks. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
zone axis symbols, seventeen plane groups, reflecting sphere construction, zero order minimum, five plane lattices, quasiperiodic crystals, central lattice point, counterchange patterns, plane point groups, ccp structure, reciprocal lattice section, inversion tetrad, special equivalent positions, fourteen space lattices, perpendicular diads, translational symmetry elements, stereographic poles, structure factor equation, diad axes, same point group symmetry, glide lines, point group symbol, texture goniometer, reciprocal lattice unit cell, reciprocal lattice points Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Owen Jones, Powder Diffraction File, John Wiley, Manual of Mineralogy, Academic Press, Clarendon Press, Johannes Kepler, Oxford University Press, Robert Hooke, The Abbe, Transforming Miller New!
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- Manual of Mineral Science, 22nd Edition (Manual of Mineralogy) by Cornelis Klein on 5 pages
- An Introduction to Crystallography by Frank Coles, Phillips on 4 pages
- Essentials of Crystallography (Crystalline Solids Vol 1) by Duncan McKie on page 49, page 178, and Back Matter
- The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones on page 59, page 63, and Back Matter
- Atlas of Optical Transforms by G. Harburn on page 138, and Back Matter
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- Transmission Electron Microscopy and Diffractometry of Materials by Brent Fultz on page 260, page 324, and page 644
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- Introduction to Dislocations, Fourth Edition by Derek Hull Emeritus Goldsmith's Professor University of Cambridge on page 42
- Environmental Chemistry (Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environmental Science) by John Wright on page 197
- Inorganic Structural Chemistry (Inorganic Chemistry: A Textbook Series) by Ulrich M?ller in Back Matter
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