The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction

by Christopher Hammond

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198505523
• ISBN13: 9780198505525
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.9" x 5.9"