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The decagonal AlCuRh quasicrystal modelled with five atomic surfaces - high-temperature X-ray diffraction data
Ireneusz Buganski1, Radoslaw Strzalka1, Janusz Wolny1
1Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Al. Mickiewicza 30, Krakow, Malopolska 30-059, Poland.
Abstract:
Five datasets of high-temperature X-ray diffraction performed upon the decagonal phase of AlCuRh are used to derive the temperature-related structural changes. Two sets of atomic structure refinements are conducted, with four and five atomic surfaces, respectively. The fifth atomic surface emerges as a consequence either of the transition to a tiling with different local isomorphism than the Penrose tiling or of the structure being phason disordered. The correlation of the occupancy of the fifth atomic surface with the thermal dependence of the lattice constants is 80%. In addition, the structural refinement with five atomic surfaces allowed a better agreement with the experimental data to be obtained, compared with the model with four atomic surfaces.
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