Quasicrystals /
This book is aimed at researchers who are working in a field of quasicrystals to provide a reference to recent developments and ideas in the field and also at graduate students, who intend to study quasicrystals, to provide introduction of ideas. Topics in this book cover an entire field of quasicry...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier,
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Handbook of metal physics.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book is aimed at researchers who are working in a field of quasicrystals to provide a reference to recent developments and ideas in the field and also at graduate students, who intend to study quasicrystals, to provide introduction of ideas. Topics in this book cover an entire field of quasicrystals, both experimental and theoretical, including new developments: the state of the art in quasicrystallography, new families of quasicrystals, phasons in aperiodic solids, ab initio studies on stability mechanism, quantum transport phenomena, elastic/plastic properties and surface of quasicrystals. Comprehensive reviews by experts in the field Complete reference of original papers and new topics Intelligible introduction of quasicrystals by experts. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographic references and index. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780444514189 044451418X |