Twinning of quasicrystals and related crystals

Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials

Volumn 34, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 251-262

  Srivastava, A K ^a   Ranganathan, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Icosahedral; Irrational twins; Rational approximants

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; QUASICRYSTALS; TWINNING;

CRYSTALLINE APPROXIMANTS; ICOSAHEDRAL QUASICRYSTALS;

ALUMINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 0030654925     PISSN: 09608974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-8974(97)00017-X     Document Type: Article

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