Crystallography Books

Book SynopsisWho is Ivan Stranski, you ask? If you Google his name you will find thousands of sites that talk about him. In fact, the Kossel-Stranski model of crystal growth and the Stranski-Krastanov mode of growth of thin epitaxial films are named after him — just two of the many scientific ideas and concepts Professor Stranski introduced to science (and through which a whole new field in science was born). Today thousands of physicists, chemists and materials scientists all over the world are working in the field of crystal growth, particularly in epitaxial growth and nucleation which are necessary for the invention of new materials and high technologies. In this respect, the life, personality and way of thinking of this remarkable scientist should be of great interest to both beginners and professionals in science.This book describes the life and scientific achievements of Ivan Stranski, Bulgarian-German physical chemist and the father of crystal growth, against the historical backdrop of wars, massacres, and remarkable scientific discoveries in the 20th century. It covers his family roots, which are remarkable in their own right, his life and career both in Bulgaria and Germany (West Berlin), and his scientific achievements, including his most important contribution to the physics of crystal growth.The book captures Professor Stranski's personality and way of thinking as much as possible from the recollections of his disciples and contemporaries. Short biographical notes about his most renowned students in Bulgaria, Rostislaw Kaischew and Lyubomir Krastanov, with whom Stranski developed his most fundamental ideas are also included.

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Book SynopsisCrystallographic groups are groups which act in a nice way and via isometries on some n-dimensional Euclidean space. They got their name, because in three dimensions they occur as the symmetry groups of a crystal (which we imagine to extend to infinity in all directions). The book is divided into two parts. In the first part, the basic theory of crystallographic groups is developed from the very beginning, while in the second part, more advanced and more recent topics are discussed. So the first part of the book should be usable as a textbook, while the second part is more interesting to researchers in the field. There are short introductions to the theme before every chapter. At the end of this book is a list of conjectures and open problems. Moreover there are three appendices. The last one gives an example of the torsion free crystallographic group with a trivial center and a trivial outer automorphism group.This volume omits topics about generalization of crystallographic groups to nilpotent or solvable world and classical crystallography. We want to emphasize that most theorems and facts presented in the second part are from the last two decades. This is after the book of L Charlap “Bieberbach groups and flat manifolds” was published.

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Book SynopsisThis book is published to celebrate the International Year of Crystallography 2014, as proclaimed by the United Nations. The year has been chosen as the International Year of Crystallography since it was 100 years ago that the first Nobel Prize was awarded for crystallographic observations to Max von Laue. Just a year later, Sir William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg, father and son, won their prize for showing the possibility of determining atomic positions in crystals. This book describes the lives and works of 33 Nobel Laureates starting with Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1901) and ending with Brian Kobilka (2012). It also reproduces the most important works of these scientists. The book gives a historical perspective of a scientific field that is important for our understanding of the atomic organization of the world around us, from inorganic materials to complex biological molecules, such as the ribosome.This book is a timely summary of the main developments in crystallography over the last 100 years. The central publications of 33 Nobel laureates are reproduced. There is no other book providing this selection of material.Table of Contentsuber eine neue Art von Strahlen (Erste Mittheilung) (W C Rontgen); uber eine neue Art von Strahlen (Zweite Mitteilung) (W C Rontgen); Interferenz-Erscheinigungen bei Rontgenstrahlen (W Friedrich, P Knipping, M Laue); The Structure of Some Crystals as Indicated by Their Diffraction of X-rays (W L Bragg); The background to the Nobel Prize to the Braggs (A Liljas); The Diffraction of Electrons by a Crystal of Nickel (C JDavisson); The Diffraction of Electrons by Single Crystals (G P Thomson); The Isolation and Crystallization of the Enzyme Urease: Preliminary paper (J B Sumner); Crystalline Pepsin I Isolation and tests of Purity (J H Northrop); Isolation of a Crystalline Protein Possessing the Properties of Tobacco-Mosaic Virus (W Stanley); The Nature of the Chemical Bond (L Pauling); Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids (J D Watson and F H C Crick); Molecular Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acids (M H F Wilkins, A R Stokes and H R Wilson); Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate (R E Franklin and R G Goosling); Structure of Hemoglobin A Three-Dimensional Fourier Synthesis at 55-A Resolution, obtained by X-ray Analysis (M FPerutz, M G Rossmann, A F Cullis, H Muirhead, G Will and A C T North); Structure of Myoglobin: A Three-Dimensional Fourier Synthesis at 2 A Resolution (J C Kendrew, R E Dickerson, B E Strandberg, R G Hart, D R Davies, D C Phillips and V C Shore); X-ray Crystallographic Evidence on the Structure of Vitamin B12 (C Brink, D C Hodgkin, J Lindsey, J Pickworth, J H Robertson and J G White); Early Development of Neutron Scattering (C G Shull); Approaching the Molecular Structure of Ribosomes (A Yonath and H G Wittmann); Metallic Phase with Long-Range Orientational Order and No Translational Symmetry (D Shechtman, I Blech, D Gratias and J W Cahn); and other papers;

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Book SynopsisThe book consists of two parts: Part 1 is a standard text of dislocation theory. Mathematics is avoided as much as possible. Part 2 describes application of dislocation theory, which includes mechanical properties (including the inverse temperature dependence of strength) and dislocations in functional materials such as Si, GaN and SiC and dislocations in a thin crystal such as an epitaxial layer. This is what has been long anticipated among researchers in industry.The book contains about 330 illustrations (mostly originals by the author) and the pictures obtained by the author by means of in-situ experiment in a transmission electron microscope over the past 50 years.This book includes many exercises, which the author found useful when he was teaching in Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Nagoya University to stimulate their interests in dislocation theory.Table of ContentsThe Fundamentals of Crystallography; Geometry of Dislocations; Fundamentals of Elasticity Theory; Elasticity Theory of Dislocations; Elastic Interaction Between Dislocations and Solute Atoms; Motion of Dislocations (Peierls Force) and Multiplication (Frank-Read Source, Bardeen-Herring Source); Dislocation Groups; Dissociated Dislocations in FCC Structure; Dissociated Dislocations in HCP; Dislocations in Ordered Alloys and Intermetallic and Inverse Temperature Dependence of the Strength; Dislocations in Diamond, Zincblend and Wurtzite Structures and SiC; Dislocations and Macroscopic Strength; Dislocations in Thin Foils;

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Book SynopsisThe book presents a unified and self-sufficient and reader-friendly introduction to the anisotropic elasticity theory necessary to model a wide range of point, line, planar and volume type crystal defects (e.g., vacancies, dislocations, interfaces, inhomogeneities and inclusions).The necessary elasticity theory is first developed along with basic methods for obtaining solutions. This is followed by a detailed treatment of each defect type. Included are analyses of their elastic fields and energies, their interactions with imposed stresses and image stresses, and the interactions that occur between them, all employing the basic methods introduced earlier.All results are derived in full with intermediate steps shown, and 'it can be shown' is avoided. A particular effort is made to describe and compare different methods of solving important problems. Numerous exercises (with solutions) are provided to strengthen the reader's understanding and extend the immediate text.In the 2nd edition an additional chapter has been added which treats the important topic of the self-forces that are experienced by defects that are extended in more than one dimension. A considerable number of exercises have been added which expand the scope of the book and furnish further insights. Numerous sections of the book have been rewritten to provide additional clarity and scope.The major aim of the book is to provide, in one place, a unique and complete introduction to the anisotropic theory of elasticity for defects written in a manner suitable for both students and professionals.Table of ContentsBasic Elements of Linear Elasticity; General Methods for Solving Crystal Defect Elasticity Problems; Green's Functions and Fourier Transforms; Interactions Between Defects and Various Stresses; Elastic Fields and Strain Energies of Point Defects, Line Defects (Dislocations), Planar Defects (Interfaces) and Volume Defects (Inhomogeneities and Inclusions); Interactions of the Various Defects With Imposed Stresses, Image Stresses and Self-Stresses; Interactions Between the Various Defects;

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