Overview

This review volume provides the most up-to-date and authoritative description of research on icosahedral solids, which has advanced rapidly since the discovery of these unique materials in 1984. The present book, intended as a companion volume to the reprint volume on The Physics of Quasicrystals edited by P Steinhardt and S Ostlund, will be invaluable to graduate students and workers in the field as a comprehensive reference. Scientists in related fields can use it as a readable introduction to the important current problems in quasicrystals. The chapters have been written by many of the most prominent theorists and experimentalists on quasicrystals, both physicists and materials scientists, from around the world. Especially exciting are the details of the recent discovery of “perfect quasi-crystals”, new materials which promise to be an ideal form of quasiperiodic matter with little or no disorder. Other topics include: electron, X-ray and neutron quasi-crystallography, scanning tunneling microscopy studies, electronic transport experiments, quasicrystal faceting and statistical mechanics, growth rules and matching rules for quasicrystals, group theory and elasticity theory.

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Author:   David Divincenzo (Rwth Aachen Univ, Germany) ,  Paul J Steinhardt (Princeton Univ, Usa) ,  David DiVincenzo (IBM, T.J. Watson Research Centre, USA)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Volume:   11
ISBN:  

9789810205225

ISBN 10:   9810205228
Pages:   536
Publication Date:   01 October 1991
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Replaced By:   9789810241551
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Progress and current issues in quasicrystals, D.P. DiVincenzo and P.J. Steinhardt; order and disorder in icosahedral alloys, P.A. Bancel; neutron scattering approaches to quasicrystals, Ch. Janot and M. de Boissieu; high-resolution electron microscopy of quasicrystals, K. Hiraga; scanning tunnelling microscopy studies of quasicrystals, R.S. Becker and A.R. Kortan; (quasi) crystallography is better in Fourier space, N.D. Mermin; matching rules for quasicrystalline tilings, K. Ingersent; growth rules for quasicrystals, J.E.S. Socolar; continuous atomic surfaces, L.S. Levitov; chiral smectics as quasicrystals, T.C. Lubensky et al; experimental studies of electronic transport in quasicrystals, K. Kimura and S. Takeuchi; electronic structure and transport of quasicrystals, T. Fujiwara and H. Tsunetsugu; electronic-structure and total-energy calculation for quasicrystals and related crystals, A.E. Carlsson and R. Phillips; faceting and surface roughening in quasicrystals, T-L. Ho; random tiling models, C.L. Henley.

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