Advanced Certificate in Powder Diffraction on the Web Text and Reference Books School of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London

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Text and Reference Books

Since this is a web-based course, you are not required (or even expected) to have access to a library of textbooks. Nonethless, it is a college requirement that all courses have so-called reading lists. In part, this page is to satisfy this requirement. However, it is also an opportunity to list a few books on the subject of crystallography and powder diffraction that we ourselves have found useful in either teaching or research.

Two books that we can highly recommend, if you have the money and really want to buy a textbook, are highlighted in red below. An old favourite on the subject of powder diffraction is the book by Klug & Alexander, a classic textbook that is sadly now out of print. The book edited by Giacovazzo is an excellent general crystallographic textbook, but one that goes much deeper into the subject than required for this course.

The list that follows is in alphabetical order:

Bish, D.L., Post, J.E. (Editors) (1989). Modern Powder Diffraction. Reviews in Mineralogy, Volume 20, Min. Soc. Amer., Washington DC.

Cockcroft, J.K. (1999). A Hypertext Book of Crystallographic Space Group Diagrams and Tables. CD-ROM, Birkbeck College, London.

Coppens, P. (1992). Synchrotron Radiation Crystallography. Academic Press, London.

Giacovazzo, C., Monaco, H.L., Viterbo, D., Scordari, F., Gilli, G., Zanotti, G., Catti, M. (1992). Fundamentals of Crystallography. Ed. by Giacovazzo, C. International Union of Crystallography, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Hahn, T. (1993). International Tables for Crystallography: Brief Teaching Edition of Volume A - Space Group Symmetry. 3rd Edition, International Union Of Crystallography, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.

Hammond, C. (1997). The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction. International Union of Crystallography, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Jenkins, R., Snyder, R.L. (1996). Introduction to X-ray Powder Diffractometry. John Wiley & Sons, New York.

Klug, H.P., Alexander, L.E. (1974). X-ray Diffraction Procedures. John Wiley & Sons, New York.

Prince, E., Stalick, J.K. (editors) (1992). Accuracy in Powder Diffraction II. proceedings of the International Conference, May 26-29 NIST, Washington DC.

Young, R.A. (Editor) (1996). The Rietveld Method. IUCr Monographs on Crystallography, Oxford Science Publications, O.U.P.

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