Energetics of Icosahedral Phase Stability in Metallic Alloys
- 1 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 58 (22), 2322-2324
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.58.2322
Abstract
Total-energy calculations based on self-consistent effective-medium theory are used to investigate icosahedral phase stability in aluminum-transition-metal binary alloys. We identify the mechanism of cohesion and explicate trends observed in diffraction experiments.Keywords
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