Modeling the electrical conductivity of icosahedral quasicrystals

A model for the electronic structure of icosahedral quasicrystals is proposed on the basis of a number of pertinent experimental results. From this model we obtain a closed analytical expression for the electrical conductivity accurately describing the most remarkable features observed in the sigma(...

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Autor: Maciá Barber, Enrique Alfonso
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2000
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/60196
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/60196
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:538.9
Al-Cu-Fe
Extended electronic states
Resolution photoemission spectroscopy
Crystalline thin-films
Ru quasi-crystals
Pd-Re alloys
Transport-properties
Nmr
Pseudogap
Approximants
Física de materiales
Física del estado sólido
2211 Física del Estado Sólido
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Sumario:A model for the electronic structure of icosahedral quasicrystals is proposed on the basis of a number of pertinent experimental results. From this model we obtain a closed analytical expression for the electrical conductivity accurately describing the most remarkable features observed in the sigma(T) curves of high quality quasicrystals. As a convenient working example we compare the theoretical description provided by our treatment with a series of suitable experimental data for the i-AlCuRu, unveiling a relationship among the density-of-states structure, the sample stoichiometry, and the electrical conductivity of different samples at different temperature ranges.