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J. Phys. I France
Volume 3, Number 9, September 1993
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| Page(s) | 1953 - 1968 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/jp1:1993223 | |
J. Phys. I France 3 (1993) 1953-1968
Single crystal X-ray study of a modulated icosahedral AlCuFe phase
N. Menguy1, M. de Boissieu1, P. Guyot1, M. Audier1, E. Elkaim2 and J. P. Lauriat21 Laboratoire de Thermodynamique et Physico-Chimie Métallurgiques, Domaine Universitaire, B.P. 75, 38402 St Martin d'Hères Cedex, France
2 LURE/CNRS/CEA/MEN, Bât. 209 D, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
(Recceived 2 February 1993, revised 20 April 1993, accepted 28 May 1993)
Abstract
A single grain of a modulated icosahedral AlCuFe phase has been studied by X-ray
diffraction using the synchrotron light source at LURE (Laboratoire pour
I'Utilisation du Rayonnement Electromagnétique, Orsay, France), Each main
icosahedral reflection is flanked by twelve satellites along fivefold
directions. The integrated intensity of 22 reflections and of their satellites
have been measured in a broad
and
range. Despite the
presence of the satellites the overall icosahedral symmetry is maintained. The
results are interpreted on the basis of six independent displacive cosine waves,
propagating along the fivefold axes of the 6-dim periodic space. The
polarization of these cosine waves is found to be longitudinal with a main
component in perpendicular space which means that the modulation is of "phason" origin.
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