International Tables for Crystallography, Volume E: Subperiodic groups

International Tables for Crystallography, Volume E, Subperiodic groups covers the seven frieze groups, the 75 rod groups and the 80 layer groups. The information tabulated for these groups is identical in format and content as that given for the 230 space groups in Volume A. In addition, scanning tables are given for each of the 230 space groups. These scanning tables give the largest subgroup of the space group that leaves the given plane invariant. The use of the scanning tables is shown in determining the symmetry of domain walls.

Volume E has been reviewed by R. Gould (Crystallography News, No. 85, June 2003, p. 13).

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From the reviews:

"...Volume E ... is composed much in the style of Volume A, with large, clear diagrams, and most of the same tables, including general and special positions, projections and sub- and supergroups. While it will certainly not command the market that Volume A does, it is almost certainly of greater relevance than it may seem to the average crystallographer, as so many structures may be considered as built up from substructures having the symmetries described here.Examples are given of the uses of the groups, particularly for well known layer structures such as cadmium chloride, and for twin junctions. The contents of the book must, however, also be recommended to molecular and macromolecular crystallographers who encounter the same penetrating rods and sectional layers."
(R. Gould, Crystallography News, No. 85)

• Department of Physics, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji

  V. Kopský

• Institute of Physcis, The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague 8, Czech Republic

  V. Kopský

• Department of Physics, The Eberly College of Science, Penn State - Berks Campus, The Pennsylvania State University, Reading, USA

  D. B. Litvin

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