Crystallization, Wulff construction, stereographic projection, basic crystallography, miller indices, point and space groups,tensor properties and symmetry, crystal anisotropy, crystal systems, important crystal structures, reciprocal space, Fourier transformation of the lattice, X-rays: origin, Bremsstrahlung and characteristic radiation, X-ray fluorescence, synchrotron and gamma rays, electron and neutron production and properties, monochromatisation, interaction of radiation with matter, scattering, absorption, kinematical theory, Bragg's equation, structure factor, Laue and Debye-Scherrer techniques, powder diffraction, phase analysis, texture analysis, pole figure, stress analysis, profile analysis, small angle X-ray diffraction, diffraction of neutrons and electrons, electron microscopy, synchrotron sources.