TY  - BOOK
AU  - Malgrange, Cécile 
AU  - Ricolleau, Christian 
AU  - Schlenker, Michel 
TI  - Symmetry and physical properties of crystals
SN  - 9789401789929 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York :  
PB  - Springer,      
KW  -  Bravais lattices
KW  -  Crystal anisotropy and tensors
KW  -  Space groups
KW  - Crystal lattices
N1  - General references 507-510p.; Index 511-522p
N2  - Crystals are everywhere, from natural crystals (minerals) through the semiconductors and magnetic materials in electronic devices and computers or piezoelectric resonators at the heart of our quartz watches to electro-optical devices. Understanding them in depth is essential both for pure research and for their applications.
This book provides a clear, thorough presentation of their symmetry, both at the microscopic space-group level and the macroscopic point-group level. The implications of the symmetry of crystals for their physical properties are then presented, together with their mathematical description in terms of tensors. The conditions on the symmetry of a crystal for a given property to exist then become clear, as does the symmetry of the property. The geometrical representation of tensor quantities or properties is presented, and its use in determining important relationships emphasized
ER  -