Properties of materials

Ansotropy - Symmetry - Structure

Robert E. Newnham

378 pages, parution le 30/11/2004

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Résumé

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 book 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. It has been written at a level suitable for science and engineering students and can be used for teaching a one- or two-semester course.

Tensors, matrices, symmetry and structure-property relationships form the main subjects of the book. Whilst 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 behaviour. Crystal optics (originating from classical mineralogy) has become an important component of the information age; its many aspects such as nonlinear optics, piezo-optics, magneto-optics, electro-optics, and analogous linear and nonlinear acoustic wave phenomena, are described in this book. Enantiomorphism, optical activity, and chemical anisotropy are discussed in the final chapters.

L'auteur - Robert E. Newnham

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

Sommaire

Introduction
Transformations
Symmetry
Transformation operators for symmetry elements
Tensors and physical properties
Thermodynamic relationships
Specific heat and entropy
Pyroelectricity
Dielectric constant
Stress and strain
Thermal expansion
Piezoelectricity
Magnetic phenomena
Nonlinear phenomena
Ferroic crystals
Electrical resistivity
Thermal conductivity
Diffusion and ionic conductivity
Galvanomagnetic and thermomagnetic phenomena
Thermoelectricity
Piezoresistance
Acoustic waves II
Crystal optics
Dispersion and absorption
Photoelasticity and acousto-optics
Electro-optic phenomena
Nonlinear optics
Optical activity and enantiomorphism
Magneto-optics
Chemical anisotropy
Further Reading
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Robert E. Newnham
Parution	30/11/2004
Nb. de pages	378
Format	19 x 24,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	747g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780198520764
ISBN13	978-0-19-852076-4