By
Alexander Glazer, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Description
This Second Edition provides solid state scientists, who are not necessarily experts in crystallography, with an understandable and comprehensive
guide to the new
International Tables for Crystallography. The basic ideas of symmetry, lattices, point groups, and space groups
are explained in a clear and detailed manner. Notation is introduced in a step-by-step way so that the reader is supplied with the tools
necessary to derive and apply space group information. Of particular interest in this second edition are the discussions of space groups
application to such timely topics as high-temperature superconductors, phase transitions, semiconductor superlattices, incommensurate
modulation, and icosahedral symmetry.
Audience:
Research scientists and graduate students in the fields of solid state chemistry, solid state physics, materials science, earth science, mineralogy, and crystallography.
