Role of crystallography

NOV 01, 1976

Contemporary crystallographic techniques for examining the structures of solids and their excitations and defects use generators ranging from new miniature x‐ray tubes to synchrotrons and pulsed‐neutron sources.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3024503

Sidney C. Abrahams

Jerome B. Cohen

Fundamental advances in materials research depend heavily on crystallographic information. Modern crystallography is concerned with the structural topology of the various states of order in matter; in particular, with the atomic arrangement, collective excitations, and electron and defect distributions in solids. The crystallographic techniques of importance to materials research cover a wide range; an overview was published recently.

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More about the Authors

Sidney C. Abrahams. Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill.

Jerome B. Cohen. Technological Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston.