Glossary
Texture and anisotropy of polycrystalline materials - Diffraction of X-rays, synchrotron radiation and neutrons

$\stackrel{·}{K}{\text{}}_{\lambda }^{\mu \nu }$Generalized symmetric spherical harmonics

Functions defined on the rotation group SO(3), respectively the sphere SO(2), and invariant to crystal (double point) and sample (single point) symmetries.

Σ character of grain boundaries

Unit mesh volume of the coincidence lattice in units of elementary crystal mesh volume.

Crystallographic texture, preferred orientations

Statistical orientation of individual crystallites in the polycrystal.

Geometrically necessary dislocations (GND)

Unlike statistical dislocations, which are randomly distributed, geometrically necessary GND dislocations are constructively...