Häußler, D., Beeli, C., Nissen, H.-U.
One-dimensionally modulated quasicrystal phase related to icosahedral Al-Mn-Pd.
Philosophical Magazine Letters 75, (2),pp 117-124 (1997)
A new one-dimensionally modulated quasicrystal phase related to the icosahedral Al-Mn-Pd quasicrystal is described from an alloy with composition o Al69.8Mn8.3Pd21.9 annealed at temperatures between 550 and 715°C and subsequently quenched in water. Systematic tilting experiments reveal that this phase is an icosahedral quasicrystal with a modulation along one of its threefold symmetry axes. It therefore has a trigonal-symmetric Fourier spectrum and a modulation period along the unique threefold axis which corresponds to 15.7 nm. This long-rangeordered phaseis relatedtotheusual F-type icosahedralquasicrystal as well as to the F2 icosahedral quasicrystal which has a P-type icosahedral lattice.
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