Structural studies of monoclinic approximants of Al13Fe4 and τ2-inflated Al13Co4 by the high-angle annular dark-field method
Structural studies of monoclinic approximants of Al13Fe4 and τ2-inflated Al13Co4 by the high-angle annular dark-field method
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高角度环形暗场法研究 Al13Fe4 和 τ2 膨胀 Al13Co4 的单斜晶近似结构
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10.1093/oxfordjournals.jmicro.a023656
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1999
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A. Tsai
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K. Saitoh;T. Yokosawa;Michiyoshi Tanaka;A. Tsai
We have taken high-angle annular dark-field (HAADF) images of two monoclinic approximants, Al13Fe4with lattice parameters ofa= 1.5489 nm,b= 0.80831 nm,c= 1.2476 nm and β = 107.72° (Black P J (1955),Acta Crystallogr. 8: 43–48) and its τ2-inflated Al13Co4with lattice parameters ofa= 3.984 nm,b= 0.8148 nm,c= 3.223 nm and β = 107.97° (Ma X L and Kuo K H (1994),Metallurgical Materials Transactions25A: 47–56). The space group of the τ2Al13Co4approximant has been determined to be P2/m using the convergent-beam electron diffraction method. We have found that the monoclinic Al13Fe4and τ2-inflated Al13Co4approximants are composed of the same basic structure of a pentagonal atom cluster with an edge length of 0.47 nm. We have also found that a fivefold atom-cluster with a 2 nm diameter exists in τ2-Al13Co4, which was observed in decagonal quasicrystals of Al-Ni-Fe, Al-Cu-Co, Al-Co and Al-Ni-Co by conventional high-resolution electron microscopy (HREM). A structural model of τ2-inflated Al13Co4is constructed on the basis of the convergent-beam electron diffraction symmetry HAADF images by referring to the structure of monoclinic Al13Fe4. The model is examined by the conventional HREM images and simulations. The 2 nm cluster of τ2Al13Co4is compared with the fivefold atom-cluster with a 2 nm diameter in decagonal quasicrystals of Al-Ni-Fe, Al-Cu-Co, Al-Co and Al-Ni-Co.