Published April 25, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Phonon scattering in quasicrystalline i-Al72Pd19.5Mn8.5: A study of the low-temperature thermal conductivity

  • 1. Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Split, N. Tesle 12, HR-21000 Split (Croatia) and Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 304, HR-10001 Zagreb (Croatia)
  • 2. Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 304, HR-10001 Zagreb (Croatia)
  • 3. Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana (Slovenia)
  • 4. Laboratorium fuer Festkoerperphysik, ETH Hoenggerberg, CH-8093 Zurich (Switzerland)

Description

We measured the thermal conductivity of an icosahedral quasicrystal i-Al72Pd19.5Mn8.5 in the temperature range between 0.4 K and 300 K. The analysis of the low-temperature results was based on a Debye-type model. The results of the analysis for the two temperature regions of 0.4 K < T < 40 K and 0.4 K < T < 1 K, are not consistent in the sense that a tunnelling-states contribution to phonon scattering is verified only for 0.4 K < T < 1 K. The same fitting procedure indicates that structural defects of the stacking-fault type are an important source of phonon scattering. Their physical presence was clearly identified by a transmission electron microscopy experiment

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.jallcom.2006.05.097;
arXiv
arXiv:cond-mat/0307458v2;
PII
S0925-8388(06)00662-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
Journal Volume
432
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 1-6
ISSN
0925-8388
CODEN
JALCEU

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Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.