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Electronic Properties of Icosahedral Mg-Ai-Zn Alloys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

David V. Baxter  and
J. O. Ström-Olsen
David V. Baxter
Affiliation:
Physics Department, McGill University Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, 3600 University St. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2T8
J. O. Ström-Olsen
Affiliation:
Physics Department, McGill University Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, 3600 University St. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2T8
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Abstract

The resistivity and magnetic susceptibility of icosahedral Mg32(Al1-xZnx)49 have been measured for compositions between x=0.5 and x=0.69. Both quantities exhibit a stronger compositional dependence than do the same properties of the similar metallic glass Mg1-xZnx. The resistivity at low temperatures displays the classic behaviour as a function of temperature and magnetic field associated with the phenomenon of weak localization, and we are able to use this fact to measure the absolute resistivity in a way which is independent of sample geometry.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 80: Symposium G – Science and Technology of Rapidly Quenched Alloys , 1986 , 341
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1987

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