Advances in the Crystallographic and Microstructural Analysis of Charge Density Wave Modulated Crystals
By: edited by Frank W. Boswell, J. Craig Bennett
Contributors: Bennett, J. Craig
Series: Physics and Chemistry of Materials with Low-Dimensional Structures -- 22; Physics and Chemistry of Materials with Low-Dimensional Structures -- 22
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9789401059459; 9789401146036
Subjects: Surfaces (Physics); Crystallography; Physics
Description: Modulated crystals have been intensively investigated over the past several years and it is now evident that an understanding of their crystallography and microstructure is fundamental to the elucidation of the physical properties and phase transitions in these materials. This book brings together for the first time the crystallographic descriptions and experimental methods for the structural and microstructural analysis of modulated crystals as described by well-known researchers in the various areas. The emphasis is on charge density wave modulations, and the detailed analysis of the prototypical NbTe4/TaTe4 system gives practical applications of the methods. Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy is a new technique providing significant new insights into atomic scale details of the modulations' structures and a chapter on this method is included.
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