Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Basic Structural Concepts
- 3 Symmetry in Crystal Structures
- 4 Crystal Structures
- 5 Diffraction
- 6 Secondary Bonding
- 7 Ionic Bonding
- 8 Metallic Bonding
- 9 Covalent Bonding
- 10 Models for Predicting Phase Stability and Structure
- Appendix 1A Crystal and univalent radii
- Appendix 2A Computing distances using the metric tensor
- Appendix 2B Computing unit cell volumes
- Appendix 2C Computing interplanar spacings
- Appendix 3A The 230 space groups
- Appendix 3B Selected crystal structure data
- Appendix 5A Introduction to Fourier series
- Appendix 5B Coefficients for atomic scattering factors
- Appendix 7A Evaluation of the Madelung constant
- Appendix 7B Ionic radii for halides and chalcogenides
- Appendix 7C Pauling electronegativities
- Appendix 9A Cohesive energies and band gap data
- Appendix 9B Atomic orbitals and the electronic structure of the atom
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 February 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Basic Structural Concepts
- 3 Symmetry in Crystal Structures
- 4 Crystal Structures
- 5 Diffraction
- 6 Secondary Bonding
- 7 Ionic Bonding
- 8 Metallic Bonding
- 9 Covalent Bonding
- 10 Models for Predicting Phase Stability and Structure
- Appendix 1A Crystal and univalent radii
- Appendix 2A Computing distances using the metric tensor
- Appendix 2B Computing unit cell volumes
- Appendix 2C Computing interplanar spacings
- Appendix 3A The 230 space groups
- Appendix 3B Selected crystal structure data
- Appendix 5A Introduction to Fourier series
- Appendix 5B Coefficients for atomic scattering factors
- Appendix 7A Evaluation of the Madelung constant
- Appendix 7B Ionic radii for halides and chalcogenides
- Appendix 7C Pauling electronegativities
- Appendix 9A Cohesive energies and band gap data
- Appendix 9B Atomic orbitals and the electronic structure of the atom
- Index
Summary
This book resulted from lecture notes that I compiled while teaching a course of the same name in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. When I began teaching this class in the early 1990s, there were already excellent textbooks on crystallography, solid state physics, and structural solid state chemistry.However, none of these books by themselves were entirely appropriate for the course I intended to teach to graduate students in materials science and engineering. Therefore, I have attempted to combine the subject matter in a way that would be both appealing and useful for materials scientists and engineers. Included in the book are compilations of data that are a useful resource for students and researchers considering basic structural problems. Much of the material in the book is derived from secondary sources and, to the best of my ability, I have assigned credit to these books in the last section of each chapter, under ‘References and Sources for Further Study’. Books by Burger (Contemporary Crystallography), Sands (Introduction to Crystallography), Harrison (Electron Structure and the Properties of Solids), West (Solid State Chemistry and its Applications), Wells (Structural Inorganic Chemistry), Kittel (Introduction to Solid State Physics), and Ashcroft and Mermin (Solid State Physics) were especially useful and it is appropriate that I draw attention to them at the outset.
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- Structure and Bonding in Crystalline Materials , pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001