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The decagonal quasicrystal Al65Co15Cu20 studied by the Mössbauer effect

Zbigniew M Stadnik1,3 and Guowei Zhang2

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A systematic57Fe Mössbauer effect study in a varying temperature range between 5.0 and 296.6 K and in an external magnetic field of 9.0 T on a high-quality stable decagonal quasicrystal Al65Co15Cu19.9Fe0.1 is presented. It is shown that the iron atoms are located in two distinct classes of sites. The values of the principal component of the electric field gradient tensor and the asymmetry parameter at these sites are, respectively, −1.90(10) × 1021 V m−2, 0.97(15) and −3.95(12) × 1021 V m−2, 0.00(17). The average quadrupole splitting decreases with temperature as T3/2. The vibrations of the Fe atoms are well described by a Debye model, with the Debye temperature of 546(7) K.


PACS

61.44.Br Quasicrystals

76.80.+y Mössbauer effect; other γ-ray spectroscopy

63.70.+h Statistical mechanics of lattice vibrations and displacive phase transitions

71.70.Ch Crystal and ligand fields

Subjects

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Condensed matter: structural, mechanical & thermal

Dates

Issue 42 (26 October 2005)

Received 24 June 2005, in final form 16 September 2005

Published 7 October 2005



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