Defects, non-crystalline solids and finite structures

A natural way to classify defects in crystalline structure is according to their dimensionality  

Part II Defects, non-crystalline solids and finite structures 

In the following three chapters we will take up the properties of point defects, line defects and surfaces and interfaces of crystals. Chapters 12 and 13 are devoted to solids that lack crystalline order and to structures which are finite (that is, not of macroscopic extent and therefore not representable as periodic) in one or more dimensions. These structures are becoming increasingly important in practical applications and give rise to a wide variety of interesting physical phenomena. 

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