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Crystallography and Crystal Defects

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This book is very thorough, and is probably great for review. I had the displeasure of trying to learn the subject matter new from this book. My main issue is that many of the sentences in this book are a paragraph long, and that makes undestanding already complex material exceptionally difficult. Also, the problem sets are much more difficult than they should be. Not to say that the level of rigour is misplaced, once I figured out what the questions were asking for most were very good problems. The issue lies in that the wording of the problems is kind of strange, and it's difficult to understand what is being asked for. There are little or no good examples in the text to prepare one for the problem sets.

As in many of my reviews, it is the earlier addition of this book that is familiar to me--in this case Kelly and Groves, rather than Kelly, Groves, and Kidd. Assuming that this newer addition is not too different from the earlier ones, I would highly recommend this book. This is the book that I always turned to when I wanted to refresh my memory regarding the definition of crystal planes and their associated Miller indices. A complete book like this one is especially important when you need to deal with non-cubic systems. In particular, this book is useful for gaining an understanding of the four index Miller-Bravais indices used for hexagonal crystals. Although Kelly and Groves is not a difficult book to read, its treatment of the subject is sufficiently rigorous to satisfy professional materials scientists.