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Quasicrystal Element Correlations From X-Ray Standing Waves

Published

Author(s)

Terrence J. Jach

Abstract

X-ray standing waves associated with dynamical diffraction in perfect crystals are also present during diffraction in high-quality quasicrystals. The fluorescence observed from quasicrystals while scanning the rocking curve of a particular Bragg reflection shows an identical form to that observed from periodic planes in a perfect crystal. In this case, however, the coherent fraction is the value of a correlation function: the Fourier component of a given elemental distribution at the wavevector associated with the Bragg peak. We show, using a model for Al-Pd-Mn, how the observed value for the coherent position at a given reflection is a sensitive indicator of the centrosymmetry of the distribution, and the observed value for the coherent fraction is a test of the elemental distribution predicted from the model.
Citation
Materials Science and Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing
Volume
294-296
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

AlPdMn, dynamical diffraction, quasicrystal, x-ray standing wave
Materials

Citation

Jach, T. (2001), Quasicrystal Element Correlations From X-Ray Standing Waves, Materials Science and Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing (Accessed October 14, 2025)

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Created January 1, 2001, Updated February 19, 2017
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