Phase formation and structures of quasicrystals and approximants in the Zn–Mg–(Ti, Zr, Hf) system |
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Authors: | S. Ohhashi E. Abe M. Tanaka A.P. Tsai |
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Affiliation: | aInstitute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Material, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan;bDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan;cNIMS Beamline Station at SPring-8, National Institute for Materials Science, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan |
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Abstract: | The compositional regions for primitive (P) and face-centered (F) icosahedral quasicrystals (iQc) have been determined to be around Zn84Mg9Zr7 and Zn75Mg18Zr6, respectively. A 1/1 approximant of the F-type iQc was found to have a composition around Zn77Mg18Zr5. A similar tendency has been verified for the Zn–Mg–Hf system. No stable iQc was observed in the Zn–Mg–Ti system. High-resolution X-ray measurements performed with synchrotron radiation showed that the stable iQcs are highly ordered and contain less phason disorder. High-angle annular dark field (HAADF) scanning transmission electron microscopy observation of the 1/1 Zn–Mg–Hf approximant effectively revealed the Hf positions in the structure, whose local contrasts can be reasonably interpreted by a structural model where icosahedral and dodecahedral Hf clusters are mutually interpenetrated. Similar appearances of local contrasts were frequently observed in HAADF images of the F-type iQc, indicating that the iQc structure is also build up of icosahedral clusters that are almost identical to those in the 1/1 approximant. |
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Keywords: | Quasicrystal Bergman cluster Zinc– magnesium– zirconium Structure |
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