Geometrical Frustration

by Jean-François Sadoc and Rémy Mosseri

Book Overview

This book shows how the concept of geometrical frustration can be used to elucidate the structure and properties of non-periodic materials such as metallic glasses, quasicrystals, amorphous semiconductors and complex liquid crystals. Geometric frustration is introduced through examples and idealized models, leading to a consideration of how the concept can be used to identify ordered and defective regions in real materials. Then it is shown how these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521031877
• ISBN13: 9780521031875
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"