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  title info:
    title: Optically Anomalous Crystals
  name:
    name part: Shtukenberg, Alexander.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Punin, Yurii O.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Kahr, Bart.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VII, 277 p. 38 illus., 22 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Optical anomalies in crystals are puzzles that collectively constituted the greatest unsolved problems in crystallography in the 19th Century. The most common anomaly is a discrepancy between a crystal’s symmetry as determined by its shape or by X-ray analysis, and that determined by monitoring the polarization state of traversing light. These discrepancies were perceived as a great impediment to the development of the sciences of crystals on the basis of Curie’s Symmetry Principle, the grand organizing idea in the physical sciences to emerge in the latter half of the 19th Century. Optically Anomalous Crystals begins with an historical introduction covering the contributions of Brewster, Biot, Mallard, Brauns, Tamman, and many other distinguished crystallographers. From this follows a tutorial in crystal optics. Further chapters discuss the two main mechanisms of optical dissymmetry: 1. the piezo-optic effect, and 2. the kinetic ordering of atoms. The text then tackles complex, inhomogeneous crystals, and the complex optical properties resulting from the superposition of anomalies having various etiologies. The book treats the literature comprehensively, but uses illustrations from the authors’ laboratories as the subjects of detailed analyses. This is an invaluable text for crystallographers, mineralogists, and petrologists interested in the growth of minerals and synthetic crystals, and their optical properties. It is also ideally suited to students of optical mineralogy, professional scientists and engineers as well as historians of science.
  table of contents: Crystal Optics -- Stress Induced Optical Anomalies -- Kinetic Ordering-Disordering -- Heterogeneous Crystals -- Superimposition of Optical Anomalies.
  note: by Alexander Shtukenberg, Yurii O. Punin ; edited by Bart Kahr.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Inorganic chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Mineralogy
  subject:
    topic: Solid state physics
  subject:
    topic: Crystallography
  subject:
    topic: Optics
  subject:
    topic: Optoelectronics
  subject:
    topic: Plasmons (Physics)
  subject:
    topic: Materials science
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Crystallography
  subject:
    topic: Mineralogy
  subject:
    topic: Materials Science, general
  subject:
    topic: Inorganic Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices
  subject:
    topic: Solid State Physics
  classification: QD901-999
  classification: 548
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      title: Springer eBooks
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