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Methods of Ex Situ and In Situ Investigations of Structural Transformations: The Case of Crystallization of Metallic Glasses
Published on: June 7, 2018
An augmented space approach to the study of random ternary alloys: II. Optical response
Kartick Tarafder1, Abhijit Mookerjee
1Division of Materials Theory, Department of Physics and Materials Science, Uppsala University, Box 530, 751 21 Uppsala, Sweden.
Abstract:
The augmented space approach to the study of random ternary alloys, described in an earlier paper (Alam and Mookerjee 2009 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21 195503), has been combined with the generalized recursion method of Viswanath and Müller (1993 The User Friendly Recursion Method, (Troisieme Cycle de la Physique, en Suisse Romande)) and the tight-binding linear muffin-tin orbitals technique (TB-LMTO) to study the optical response in disordered Cu(x)Ni(y)Zn(z) alloys, and compared with existing experimental results.
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