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Electronic properties of quasicrystals
Author(s) -
Klein Thierry,
Berger Claire,
Mayou Didier,
CyrotLackmann Françoise
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.19920040211
Subject(s) - quasicrystal , materials science , condensed matter physics , semiconductor , metal–insulator transition , insulator (electricity) , metal , chemical physics , nanotechnology , engineering physics , optoelectronics , metallurgy , physics
Quasicrystalline structures exhibit long‐range orientational order without translational periodicity and as a result have been found to exhibit a number of unusual properties. The AlCuFe alloys highlighted here, for example, have very high resistivities which are in the rangre of what would be expected for heavily ddoped semiconductors on the metallic side of a metal–insulator transition. The materials and their properties are discussed.