Structural study of a superlattice Al-Ni-Ru decagonal quasicrystal using high-resolution electron microscopy and a high-angle annular dark-field technique

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Sun, W [1 ]
Hiraga, K [1 ]
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[1] Tohoku Univ, Inst Mat Res, Aoba Ku, Sendai, Miyagi 9808577, Japan
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A high-quality superlattice Al-Ni-Ru decagonal quasicrystal with 0.4 nm periodicity, formed in the conventionally solidified Al70Ni20Ru10 alloy, has been studied by high-resolution electron microscopy and a high-angle annular dark-field (Z-contrast) technique. It has been clearly revealed that its structure is characterized as an a periodically ordered arrangement of decagon-shaped atomic columnar clusters which have a diameter of 2 nm and show pentagonal symmetry. On the basis of high-resolution electron microscopy structure images, and the atom-resolution Z-contrast observations which highlight the transition-metal sites, the arrangement of atoms in the superlattice decagonal quasicrystal are proposed.
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