K. Hradil et al., X-RAY DIFFUSE-SCATTERING IN THE DECAGONAL PHASES AL70NI15CO15, AL72.5NI11CO16-CENTER-DOT-5 AND AL62CU20CO15SI3 UP TO 1150 K, Philosophical magazine. B. Physics of condensed matter. Structural, electronic, optical and magnetic properties, 71(5), 1995, pp. 955-966
The tide compounds have an isotypic averaged structure but differ in s
ignificant detail with respect to disorder. Disorder diffuse scatterin
g has been studied in situ up to 1150 K with a heating camera and X-ra
y films and an image-plate system at the synchrotron source Deutsches
Elektronensynchrotron/HASYLAB. With the oscillation technique (primary
beam perpendicular to the 'periodic' direction) the area between the
zeroth and the fourth Bragg layer was explored. There are modulated di
ffuse layers and diffuse phenomena, in particular diffuse streaks, wit
hin the Bragg layers. The diffuse layers are related to a superperiod
along the 'periodic' direction and the streaks arise from disorder in
the quasicrystalline packing. A different temperature behaviour of the
diffuse layers compared with the diffuse streaks was observed. The fo
rmer decrease in intensity above 770 K and vanish completely at about
1070 K, whereas the intensity of the diffuse streaks decreases between
1120 and 1150 K. Both processes are time dependent but fully reversib
le. This decrease in disorder in the quasicrystalline packing occurs i
n the same temperature regime where an extension of the stability fiel
d of the decagonal Al70Ni15Co15 phase was reported earlier.