Issue 8, 2004

Polarimetric imaging of crystals

Abstract

Classical crystal optics has recently undergone a renaissance as developments in optical microscopy and polarimetry, enabled in part by sensitive imaging CCD cameras and personal computers, now permit the analytical separation of various optical effects that are otherwise convolved in polarized light micrographs. In this tutorial review, we review recent developments in the measurement of the principal crystallo-optical quantities including linear birefringence, linear dichroism, circular birefringence, and circular dichroism, as well as new effects in crystal optics encountered in unusual mixed crystals. The new microscopies and polarimetries are applied to problems of crystallographic twinning, phase transformations, stress birefringence, symmetry reduction, and the design of new crystalline materials.

Graphical abstract: Polarimetric imaging of crystals

Article information

Article type
Tutorial Review
Submitted
05 Feb 2002
First published
28 Sep 2004

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2004,33, 514-525

Polarimetric imaging of crystals

W. Kaminsky, K. Claborn and B. Kahr, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2004, 33, 514 DOI: 10.1039/B201314M

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