Optically Anomalous Crystals

By: Alexander Shtukenberg, Yurii Punin, Bart Kahr

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Hardcover | 17 January 2007

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Optically Anomalous Crystals begins with an historical introduction covering the contributions of Brewster, Biot, Mallard, Brauns, Tamman, and many other distinguished crystallographers. From this follows a tutorial in crystal optics. Further chapters discuss the two main mechanisms of optical dissymmetry: 1. the piezo-optic effect, and 2. the kinetic ordering of atoms. The text then tackles complex, inhomogeneous crystals, and the complex optical properties resulting from the superposition of anomalies having various etiologies. The book treats the literature comprehensively, but uses illustrations from the authors' laboratories as the subjects of detailed analyses.

This is an invaluable text for crystallographers, mineralogists, and petrologists interested in the growth of minerals and synthetic crystals, and their optical properties. It is also ideally suited to students of optical mineralogy, professional scientists and engineers as well as historians of science.

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"The present volume constitutes a comprehensive and detailed review of the current state of knowledge about anomalous crystals. ... The text is illustrated by many figures and black-and-white photographs ... . This book is well referenced ... . this is an authoritative and insightful book on a fascinating book on a fascinating research topic. For the specialist, it is an invaluable work of reference and source of information and inspiration; those unfamiliar with this field will find stimulation and entertainment by browsing the book." (Pedro Cintas, Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 46 (32), 2007)

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Crystal Optics: Introduction to crystal optics in transmitted light
Light in isotropic media
Light in anisotropic media
Symmetry of the optical indicatrix
Other linear optical phenomena
Composition, Structure and Optics
Characterizing the Optical Indicatrix
Definition of Optical Anomolies in Terms of Indicatrix
Anomolies of obvious Etiology
Gross compositional inhomogeneity
Macroscopic deformations of crystals
Abundance of Optical Anomolies
Stress induced optical anomalies: Phenomenological description of piezooptic effects
Piezooptic and elastooptic coeffiecients
Piezooptic phenomena in amorphous solids
Piezooptic phenomenon in cubic crystals
Piezooptic phenomenon in uniaxial crystals
The general case
Example
Numerical Estimations of Stress and Stress-Induced Optical Anomolies
Sources of Stress
Inclusions
Dislocations
Single dislocations
Dislocation ensembles
Macroblocks, grain, and twin boundaries
Thermoelasticitiy and Thermoplasticity
Compositional Heterometry
What is heterometry?
Zoning
Growth sector zoning
Sub-sector zoning
Effect of growth conditions on the stress-induced optical anomolies
Kinetic ordering-disordering: Kinetic ordering
Kinetic disordering
Crystal symmetry
The Neumann-Curei principle
Application of group theory
Optical inhomogenetiy of crystals
Sector zoning
Sub-sector zoning
Sector zoning vs. sub-sector zoning
Concentric zoning
Anomolous progression of anomolous birefringence
Kinetic ordering and crystal structure
Experimental analyses
Desymmetrization by X-ray diffraction
Kinetic Ordering and the optical indicatrix
Kinetic ordering and anomolous pleachroism
Metastability of kinetic ordering
Kinetic ordering vs. atomic structure of the growing surface
Rlaxation by diffusion
Factors affecting Gworth Ordering
Crystal composition
Composition of growth medium
Temperature and pressure
Growth rate
Hydrodynamics and mass transfer
Heterogeneous Crystals: Optics of heterogeneous crystals
Optically homogeneous systems
Inclusions
Optically homogeneous heterostructures
Heterostructures of polytype modifications
The reverse problem for the polytypes intergrowths
Polysynthetic twinning
Ex-solution structures
Syntaxy
Chaotic disorientations of components
Optically heterogeneous systems
Isogyres
Isochromes
Modeling distorted conoscopic figures
Calculation of the distorted conoscopic figures: some examples
Distorted conoscopic figures as a characteristic of crystal inhomogeneity
Heterogeneity at different length scales
Superimposition of optical anomalies: General remarks
Internal Stress
Compositional Heterometry
Dislocations and dislocation ensembles
Kinetic Ordering
Crystal Heterogeneity
Optical Anomolies in Ugrandite Garnets
Optical Anomolies in Solid Solutions of ALums
Detecting superimposed sources of optical anomolies
Faux Optical Anomolies
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