Space groups for solid state scientists

This comprehensively revised - essentially rewritten - new edition of the 1990 edition (described as 'extremely useful' by Mathematical Reviews and as 'understandable and comprehensive' by Scitech) guides readers through the dense array of mathematical information in the Internat...

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Main Authors: Glazer, A. M., Burns, Gerald (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Elsevier 2013, ©2013
Edition:Third edition
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Collection: Elsevier ScienceDirect eBooks - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • What Is Symmetry?
  • 1.1. Symmetry Operations
  • 1.2. Point Symmetry Operations
  • 1.3. Hexagonal Coordinates
  • Haüy's Legacy
  • 2.1. Lattice
  • 2.2. Unit Cell
  • 2.3. Crystal Structure
  • 2.4. Crystal Systems
  • 2.5. Summary
  • Symmetry and Lattices
  • 3.1. Centering of Lattices
  • 3.2. The 14 Bravais Lattices
  • 3.3. Primitive Cells of the 14 Bravais Lattices
  • 3.4. The Wigner-Seitz Unit Cell
  • 3.5. Two-Dimensional Lattices
  • Introduction to Groups
  • 4.1. Development of Crystallographic Point Groups
  • 4.2. The Point Groups for Each Crystal System
  • 4.3. The 32 Point Groups from Holohedries
  • 4.4. Laue Classes and Groups
  • 4.5. Point Group Notation
  • Space Group Operators
  • 5.1. The Symmorphic Space Groups
  • 5.2. Non-Symmorphic Operations
  • 5.3. Point Group of a Space Group
  • 5.4. Space Groups
  • 5.5. Derivation of Space Groups
  • 5.6. Space Group Classifications
  • 5.7. Two-Dimensional Space Groups
  • 5.8. Subperiodic Groups
  • What Does the ITA Tell Us?
  • 6.1. Crystal Structure and Space Groups
  • 6.2. Typical' Pages of the ITA
  • 6.3. Example Pages from the ITA
  • 6.4. Subgroups and Supergroups
  • 6.5. Space Group Symmetry Operations
  • 6.6. Hall Space Group Symbols
  • And Now Atoms
  • 7.1. Face-Centered Cubic Structures
  • 7.2. Primitive Cubic Structures
  • 7.3. Body-Centered Cubic Structures
  • 7.4. Diamond Structure
  • 7.5. Spinel Structure
  • 7.6. Zinc Sulphide Structure
  • 7.7. Chalcopyrite
  • 7.8. Semiconductor Superlattices
  • 7.9. Structural Phase Transitions in Crystals
  • 7.10. Displacive SPTs
  • 7.11. Proteins
  • 7.12. Crystallographic Information File
  • 7.13. Ferroic Phase Transitions
  • 7.14. Surface Structure Plane and Layer Groups
  • 7.15. Diffusion, Disordered Structures and Point Defects
  • 7.16. Euclidean normalizers
  • 7.17. Non-Crystallographic Symmetry
  • 7.18. Structures with Z'>1
  • 7.19. Icosahedral Symmetry
  • 7.20. Incommensurate Modulations
  • 7.21. Charge Density Wave
  • 7.22. Quasicrystals
  • Bicolor Symmetry
  • 8.1. Black and White Antisymmetry Groups
  • 8.2. Effect on Vectors
  • 8.3. Magnetic Point Groups
  • 8.4. Translational Subgroups of Magnetic Groups
  • 8.5. Black and White Space Groups
  • 8.6. Magnetic Space Groups
  • 8.7. Examples of Magnetic Structures
  • 8.8. Representation Method
  • 8.9. OG/BNS Magnetic Group Symbols