R. Tamura et al., Roles of quasiperiodicity and local environment in the electronic transport of the icosahedral quasicrystals in Al-Pd-TM (TM=Fe, Ru, Os) systems, MATER TRANS, 42(6), 2001, pp. 928-932
In order to gain an insight into the roles of the local atomic environment
and the long-range quasiperiodicity in the electronic transport of the icos
ahedral quasicrystal, a direct comparison of the electrical resistivity of
icosahedral quasicrystals, (1/0, 1/0, 1/0) and (2/1, 2/1, 2/1) crystalline
approximants in the Al-Pd-TM (TM=Fe, Ru, Os) ternary systems has been made
on the basis of the same alloy system. The trend of the resistivity of 1/0-
cubic approximants, which are the lowest order crystalline analogues to the
icosahedral phase, already possesses a nonmetallic character, while the 2/
1-cubic approximants exhibit quite similar behavior to that of the correspo
nding quasicrystals. The present result strongly suggests that the effect o
f the long-range quasiperiodicity beyond the lattice periodicity of 2/1-cub
ic approximant phase on the electronic transport is of less significance an
d the electronic transport of approximants and quasicrystals is mainly dete
rmined by the local atomic environment of a scale less than 2.0 nm.