This book presents a physical approach to the diffraction phenomenon and its applications
in materials science. An historical background to the discovery of X-ray diffraction is first …

X-ray diffraction is a useful and powerful analysis technique for characterizing crystalline
materials commonly employed in MSE, physics, and chemistry. This informative new book …

X-ray Diffraction: A Practical Approach, C. Suryanarayana and M. Grant Norton, 1998.
Plenum Press, New York and London. xiii+ 273 pages.(hardback, 59.40, elsewhere). It is the …

This valuable text begins with the general theory of diffraction through the use of Fourier
transforms. The author then applies the general results to various atomic structures including …

Basic diffraction theory has numerous important applications in solid-state physics and
physical metallurgy, and this graduate-level text is the ideal introduction to the fundamentals …

Since the discovery of X-rays at the end of the 19th century and the first works on diffraction
of X-rays by crystals, huge developments were achieved in the application of these methods …

One of the most important techniques for determining the atomic structure of a material is X-
ray diffraction. One of the great problems of the technique, however, is the fact that only the …

The role of diffraction methods for the solid-state sciences has been pivotal to determining
the (micro) structure of a material. Particularly, the expanding activities in materials science …

The book is best used in the following sequence.(1) The radiation and method of recording
are selected in accordance with the data of Chapters 1 and 2; the detailed param eters for …

The rapid growth in the applications of electronic materials has created an increasing
demand for reliable techniques for examining and characterizing these materials. This book …