Optically Anomalous Crystals

• Main Authors: Shtukenberg, Alexander (Author), Punin, Yurii O. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kahr, Bart (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Subjects: Physics.; Inorganic chemistry.; Mineralogy.; Solid state physics.; Crystallography.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Materials science.; Materials Science, general.; Inorganic Chemistry.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Solid State Physics.

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...