2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Analysis of the Microstructure; Analysis of Lattice Imperfections: Light and Electron Microscopical and X-Ray Diffraction Methods
Author : Prof. Dr. Eric J. Mittemeijer
Published in: Fundamentals of Materials Science
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Materials are substances that have now, or are expected to find in a not too distant future, practical use (see Chap. 1). The microstructure of a material (beautifully described by the untranslatable German word “Gefüge”) is a notion that comprises all aspects of the atomic arrangement in a material that should be known in order to understand its properties. Mostly we are concerned with crystalline materials. The conception microstructure then narrows to the description of the so-called crystal imperfection (cf. Chap. 5).