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Mirror symmetry : the mother of all crystal symmetries
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This graduate-level textbook deals with different aspects of plane mirrors and mirror-related symmetries. It provides us with some new ways of understanding symmetries in crystals and the mirror combination schemes.
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The inclusion of topics such as the Wigner–Seitz unit cell, reciprocal lattice, Brillouin zones, diffraction of crystals, etc., based on the mirror combination scheme, are extremely helpful in understanding many other concepts in crystallography. A mirror is the only fundamental symmetry in crystals, and all other permissible symmetries in crystalline solids can be derived from suitable combinations of mirrors, called derived symmetries. A rudimentary knowledge of symmetry in crystallography is essential to students, researchers, and professionals in many subjects in science and technology: physics, chemistry, mathematics, molecular biology, geology, metallurgy, and particularly materials science and mineralogy. (Dal sito dell'editore)
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| Description | *Mirror symmetry : the mother of all crystal symmetries / M. A. Wahab. - Singapore : Springer, 2024. - 1 testo elettronico (xiii, 224 p. : ill.) | |
| ISBN | 9789819983612 | |
| Series | Springer series in solid-state sciences , 200 | |
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| Subjects | 82D25 - Statistical mechanical studies of crystals [MSC 2020] | |
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Brillouin Zones
Crystal system Crystallography Diffraction of crystals Inversion symmetry Minimum symmetry form Mirror Symmetry Point group minima Point groups Reciprocal lattice Rotational symmetry Roto reflection Rotoinversion Space groups Structure factor Wigner-Seitz unit cell |
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| Publication place | Singapore | |
| Publisher | Springer <editore> | |
| Publication year | 2024 | |
| Thesaurus | 82D25 | |
| Statistical mechanical studies of crystals [MSC 2020] |