Materials Science and Metallurgy Course C6: Crystallography Part II Materials Science and Metallurgy Course C6: Crystallography Professor Harry Bhadeshia Lecture 9: Quasicrystals
Quasicrystals long range order no 3-D translational symmetry sharp diffraction patterns
Icosahedral Al-Pd-Mn Al-Cu-Fe Ho-Mg-Zn Decagonal Al-Ni-Co
icosahedron has 12 corners most definitions indicate 20 faces
Al-Ni-Co
fiboncci chain
Phasons: in quasicrystals, the atomic planes contain more than one shape. Atoms can fluctuate between two nearby positions in a way that tiles exchange positions without disrupting shape.
A quasiperiodic system may be considered as the intersection of a lattice periodic structure in a higher-dimensional space and the physical space.