Basic Elements of Crystallography - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Nevill Gonzalez Szwacki was educated at Warsaw University, with a master's degree in theoretical physics. He received his PhD in computational physics from Polish Academy of Sciences in 2003. Since 2004 he is a Robert A. Welch Postdoctoral Fellow first at Rice University and Texas Tech University and presently at Texas Southern University. Dr. Gonzalez Szwacki is a theoretical physicist, whose research centers around computational modeling of the properties of boron and silicon based nanostructures. One of his achievements was to identify a new family of inorganic fullerenes. The cages are made up entirely of boron atoms and one of them, B80, is known in scientific news as the "boron buckyball" because of its structural similarities to C60.
Teresa Szwacka received her master's degree in theoretical physics from Warsaw University and in the same institution she obtained her PhD and habilitation in the field of condensed matter theory. She has been a professor of physics since 1969 at the University of Los Andes (ULA) in Venezuela. Professor Szwacka was one of the founders of the Department of Physics at ULA. She was also for many years associated with the Faculty of Physics at Warsaw University. Her main research activity concerns the theoretical studies of the optical and transport properties in bulk and low-dimensional semiconductor systems. Professor Szwacka has more than 30 years of experience in teaching physics courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Teresa Szwacka is a professor at the University of Los Andes in Venezuela. Nevill Gonzalez Szwacki is a scientist and a lecturer at the University of Warsaw in Poland.

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This book is intended to be a complete and clear introduction to the field of crystallography. It includes an extensive discussion of the 14 Bravais lattices and the reciprocal to them, basic concepts of point group symmetry, the crystal structure of elements and binary compounds, and much more.The purpose of this textbook is to illustrate rather than describe using many words the structure of materials. Readers who are not at all familiar with the topic but who want to learn how atoms are arranged in crystal structures, will find this book useful. The chapters are accompanied by exercises designed to encourage students to explore the crystal structures he/she is learning about. The entire notation in this book is consistent with the International Tables for Crystallography.