Download or read book Optically Anomalous Crystals written by Alexander Shtukenberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins with an historical introduction covering the contributions of many distinguished crystallographers. From this follows a tutorial in crystal optics. Further chapters discuss the two main mechanisms of optical dissymmetry, the piezo-optic effect and the kinetic ordering of atoms. The book treats the literature comprehensively, but uses illustrations from the authors’ laboratories as the subjects of detailed analyses.