Lattice dynamics of the Zn-Mg-Sc icosahedral quasicrystal and its Zn-Sc periodic 1/1 approximant

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 977-984

  De Boissieu, Marc ^a   Francoual, Sonia ^a,b,p   Mihalkovič, Marek ^a,c   Shibata, Kaoru ^d   Baron, Alfred Q R ^e,f   Sidis, Yvan ^g   Ishimasa, Tsutomu ^h   Wu, Dongmei ⁱ   Lograsso, Thomas ⁱ   Regnault, Louis Pierre ^j   Gähler, Franz ^k   Tsutsui, Satoshi ^f   Hennion, Bernard ^g   Bastie, Pierre ^b,l   Sato, Taku J ^m   Takakura, Hiroyuki ^h   Currat, Roland ^b   Tsai, An Pang ^n,o  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Slovakia)

^d JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e 1 1 1 Kouto ^*  (Japan)

^f JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^g CEA SACLAY   (France)

^h HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^k UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^l UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

ⁿ TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^o NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^p LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LATTICE VIBRATIONS; MOLECULAR MODELING; NEUTRON SCATTERING; ORDER DISORDER TRANSITIONS; PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

ATOMIC MODELS; ICOSAHEDRAL QUASICRYSTALS; PSEUDO-GAPS; TRANSLATIONAL INVARIANCE;

QUASICRYSTALS;

EID: 36749058834     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2044     Document Type: Article

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