Properties of Materials

Anisotropy, Symmetry, Structure

Robert E. Newnham (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

390 Seiten

2004
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-852075-7 (ISBN)

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Crystals are sometimes called 'Flowers of the Mineral Kingdom'. In addition to their great beauty, crystals and other textured materials are enormously useful in electronics, optics, acoustics and many other engineering applications. This richly illustrated text describes the underlying principles of crystal physics and chemistry, covering a wide range of topics and illustrating numerous applications in many fields of engineering using the most important materials today. Tensors, matrices, symmetry and structure-property relationships form the main subjects of the book. While tensors and matrices provide the mathematical framework for understanding anisotropy, on which the physical and chemical properties of crystals and textured materials often depend, atomistic arguments are also needed to quantify the property coefficients in various directions. The atomistic arguments are partly based on symmetry and partly on the basic physics and chemistry of materials. After
introducing the point groups appropriate for single crystals, textured materials and ordered magnetic structures, the directional properties of many different materials are described: linear and nonlinear elasticity, piezoelectricity and electrostriction, magnetic phenomena, diffusion and other transport properties, and both primary and secondary ferroic behavior. With crystal optics (its roots in classical mineralogy) having become an important component of the information age, nonlinear optics is described along with the piexo-optics, magneto-optics, and analogous linear and nonlinear acoustic wave phenomena. Enantiomorphism, optical activity, and chemical anisotropy are discussed in the final chapters of the book.

Robert E. Newnham is Alcoa Professor of Solid State Science in the Materials Research Laboratory at The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

1. Introduction ; 2. Transformations ; 3. Symmetry ; 4. Transformation operators for symmetry elements ; 5. Tensors and physical properties ; 6. Thermodynamic relationships ; 7. Specific heat and entropy ; 8. Pyroelectricity ; 9. Dielectric constant ; 10. Stress and strain ; 11. Thermal expansion ; 12. Piezoelectricity ; 13. Elasticity ; 14. Magnetic phenomena ; 15. Nonlinear phenomena ; 16. Ferroic crystals ; 17. Electrical resistivity ; 18. Thermal conductivity ; 19. Diffusion and ionic conductivity ; 20. Galvanomagnetic and thermomagnetic phenomena ; 21. Thermoelectricity ; 22. Piezoresistance ; 23. Acoustic waves I ; 24. Acoustic waves II ; 25. Crystal optics ; 26. Dispersion and absorption ; 27. Photoelasticity and acousto-optics ; 28. Electro-optic phenomena ; 29. Nonlinear optics ; 30. Optical activity and enantiomorphism ; 31. Magneto-optics ; 32. Chemical anisotropy

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.2004
Zusatzinfo	numerous line figures
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	193 x 252 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Physikalische Chemie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Festkörperphysik
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
	Technik ► Maschinenbau
ISBN-10	0-19-852075-1 / 0198520751
ISBN-13	978-0-19-852075-7 / 9780198520757
Zustand	Neuware