Understanding the phenomenon of wave scattering by random media is a ubiquitous problem that has instigated extensive research in the field. This thesis focuses on wave scattering by quasiperiodic media as an alternative approach to provide insight into the effects of structural aperiodicity on the propagation of the waves. Quasiperiodic structures are aperiodic yet ordered so have attributes that make them beneficial to explore. Quasiperiodic lattices are also used to model the atomic structures of quasicrystals; materials that have been found to have a multitude of applications due to their unusual characteristics. The research in this thesis is motivated by both the mathematical and physical benefits of quasiperiodic structures and aims to bring together the two important and distinct fields of research: waves in heterogeneous media and quasiperiodic lattices. A review of the past literature in the area has highlighted research that would be beneficial to the applied mathematics community. Thus, particular attention is paid towards developing rigorous mathematical algorithms for the construction of several quasiperiodic lattices of interest and further investigation is made into the development of periodic structures that can be used to model quasiperiodic media. By employing established methods in multiple scattering new techniques are developed to predict and approximate wave propagation through finite and infinite arrays of isotropic scatterers with quasiperiodic distributions. Recursive formulae are derived that can be used to calculate rapidly the propagation through one- and two-dimensional arrays with a one-dimensional Fibonacci chain distribution. These formulae are applied, in addition to existing tools for two-dimensional multiple scattering, to form comparisons between the propagation in one- and two-dimensional quasiperiodic structures and their periodic approximations. The quasiperiodic distributions under consideration are governed by the Fibonacci, the square Fibonacci and the Penrose lattices. Finally, novel formulae are derived that allow the calculation of Bloch-type waves, and their properties, in infinite periodic structures that can approximate the properties of waves in large, or infinite, quasiperiodic media.

Quasicrystalline compounds (QC) have been shown to have lower friction compared to other structures of the same constituents. The abscence of structural interlocking when two QC surfaces slide against one another yields the low friction. To use QC as low-friction coatings in combustion engines where hydrocarbon-based oil lubricant is commonly used, knowledge of how a film of lubricant forms on the coating is required. Any adsorbed films having non-quasicrystalline structure will reduce the self-lubricity of the coatings. In this manuscript, we report the results of simulations on thin films growth of selected hydrocarbons and rare gases on a decagonal Al$_{73}$Ni$_{10}$Co$_{17}$ quasicrystal (d-AlNiCo). Grand canonical Monte Carlo method is used to perform the simulations. We develop a set of classical interatomic many-body potentials which are based on the embedded-atom method to study the adsorption processes for hydrocarbons. Methane, propane, hexane, octane, and benzene are simulated and show complete wetting and layered films. Methane monolayer forms a pentagonal order commensurate with the d-AlNiCo. Propane forms disordered monolayer. Hexane and octane adsorb in a close-packed manner consistent with their bulk structure. The results of hexane and octane are expected to represent those of longer alkanes which constitute typical lubricants. Benzene monolayer has pentagonal order at low temperatures which transforms into triangular lattice at high temperatures. The effects of size mismatch and relative strength of the competing interactions (adsorbate-substrate and between adsorbates) on the film growth and structure are systematically studied using rare gases with Lennard-Jones pair potentials. It is found that the relative strength of the interactions determines the growth mode, while the structure of the film is affected mostly by the size mismatch between adsorbate and substrate's characteristic length. On d-AlNiCo, xenon monolayer undergoes a first-order structural transition from quasiperiodic pentagonal to periodic triangular. Smaller gases such as Ne, Ar, Kr do not show such transition. A simple rule is proposed to predict the existence of the transition which will be useful in the search of the appropriate quasicrystalline coatings for certain oil lubricants. Another part of this thesis is the calculation of phase diagram of Fe-Mo-C system under pressure for studying the effects of Mo on the thermodynamics of Fe:Mo nanoparticles as catalysts for growing single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). Adding an appropriate amount of Mo to Fe particles avoids the formation of stable binary Fe$_3$C carbide that can terminate SWCNTs growth. Eventhough the formation of ternary carbides in Fe-Mo-C system might also reduce the activity of the catalyst, there are regions in the Fe:Mo which contain enough free Fe and excess carbon to yield nanotubes. Furthermore, the ternary carbides become stable at a smaller size of particle as compared to Fe$_3$C indicating that Fe:Mo particles can be used to grow smaller SWCNTs. / Dissertation

Nous considérons le problème d’un électron sur des pavages quasipériodiques en une et deux dimensions. Nous introduisons tout d’abord les pavages quasipériodiques d’un point de vue géométrique, et défendons en particulier l’idée que ces pavages sont les pavages apériodiques les plus proches de la périodicité. Nous concentrant plus particulièrement sur l’un des pavages quasipériodiques les plus simples, la chaîne de Fibonacci, nous montrons à l’aide d’un groupe de renormalisation que la multifractalité des états électroniques découle directement de l’invariance d’échelle de la chaîne. Élargissant ensuite notre champ d’étude à un ensemble de chaînes quasipériodiques, nous nous intéressons au théorème de label des gaps, qui décrit comment la géométrie d’une chaîne donnée contraint les valeurs que peut prendre la densité d’états intégrée dans les gaps du spectre électronique. Plus précisément, nous nous intéressons à la façon dont l’énoncé de ce théorème est modifié lorsque l’on considère une séquence d’approximants périodiques approchant une chaîne quasipériodique. Enfin, nous montrons comment des champs de hauteurs géométriques peuvent être utilisés pour construire des états électroniques exacts sur des pavages en une et deux dimensions. Ces états sont robustes aux perturbations du hamiltonien, sous réserve que ces dernières respectent les symétries du pavage sous-jacent. Nous relions les dimensions fractales de ces états à la distribution de probabilités des hauteurs, que nous calculons de façon exacte. Dans le cas des chaînes quasipériodiques, nous montrons que la conductivité suit une loi d’échelle de la taille de l’échantillon, dont l’exposant est relié à cette même distribution de probabilités. / We consider the problem of a single electron on one and two-dimensional quasiperiodic tilings. We first introduce quasiperiodic tilings from a geometrical point of view, and point out that among aperiodic tilings, they are the closest to being periodic. Focusing on one of the simplest one-dimensional quasiperiodic tilings, the Fibonacci chain, we show, with the help of a renormalization group analysis, that the multifractality of the electronic states is a direct consequence of the scale invariance of the chain. Considering now a broader class of quasiperiodic chains, we study the gap labeling theorem, which relates the geometry of a given chain to the set of values the integrated density of states can take in the gaps of the electronic spectrum. More precisely, we study how this theorem is modified when considering a sequence of approximant chains approaching a quasiperiodic one. Finally, we show how geometrical height fields can be used to construct exact eigenstates on one and two-dimensional quasiperiodic tilings. These states are robust to perturbations of the Hamiltonian, provided that they respect the symmetries of the underlying tiling. These states are critical, and we relate their fractal dimensions to the probability distribution of the height field, which we compute exactly. In the case of quasiperiodic chains, we show that the conductivity follows a scaling law, with an exponent given by the same probability distribution.

In this thesis, I examine three very different solid-state systems that are all poor conductors when compared to elemental metals. The physics of canonical metals, such as the alkali and noble metals, is well known and is usually idealized in the free-or nearly free-electron picture. Their electron band structures are characterized by parabolic-like bands that cross the Fermi energy and possibly d-bands with flatter dispersions a few eV away. These well-behaved systems lend themselves to the use of simple analytic relations. Each of the three systems that I examine here differs significantly from the nearly-free parabolic band-picture of the electronic structure and require more complex analyses. In the first system of quasicrystals and approximants, we will discover that the electrons are undergoing anomalous diffusion depending on the size and symmetry of the lattices. Of course, as is well known, the details of these atomic lattice are what determine the nature of electronic band structures and how electrons may propagate in solids. In the second system, I find great agreement between my NbAs measurements and calculations on the closely related NbP compound. Incidental to this, I find that a reading of band structures shows that claims of measuring the linear band dispersion in Weyl/Dirac semimetals are not supported by the experimental and theoretical band structures. Finally, in the metallic regime of Nd_(1−x)TiO_3, we find that the Fermi liquid b coefficient is not within the bounds allowed by present models in samples with x = 0.2 and x = 0.15. It is suggested that the approximations used in current models may be why theory and experiment disagree. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Dans ce mémoire de thèse, je rapporte les résultats des études réalisées durant ces trois dernières années à l'Institut Non Linéaire de Nice. D'une part, je présente nos expériences de miroir de rétro-action conduisant à la formation spontanée de patterns dans la section transversale d'un faisceau laser (pompe) traversant le centre d'un nuage d'atomes froids de 87Rb et rétro-réfléchi par un miroir placé à une distance du nuage. Dans ces expériences nous discernons trois types de mécanismes de nonlinéarités : la nonlinéarité de spin qui est liée au pompage Zeeman, la nonlinéarité électronique existant pour un atome à deux niveaux et la nonlinéarité opto-mécanique qui est liée à la force dipolaire. Ces mécanismes dépendant des paramètres du MOT et de la pompe (intensité, désaccord, durée) sont étudiés séparément en jouant sur ces paramètres. Ces études expérimentales sont comparées avec des résultats obtenus avec des modèles théoriques. D'autre part, je présente nos observation concernant la densité d'état intégrée et les la densité d'états locale des bandes d'un quasi-cristal bidimensionnel. Dans cette expérience réalisée au Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, nous avons réalisé des quasi-cristaux en disposant des résonateurs diélectriques agissant dans le domaine micro-onde sur des pavages de Penrose 2D. Un modèle numérique prenant en compte les paramètres expérimentaux est utilisé pour comparer les résultats obtenus. / First, I present our feedback experiment leading to the spontaneous formation of patterns in the cross section of a laser beam passing through a cloud of cold 87Rb atoms and retroreflected by a mirror. In these experiments we were able to identify three mechanisms of nonlinearity: the spin nonlinearity associated with the Zeeman degrees of freedom, the electronic nonlinearity due to the saturation of a two-level atom and the optomechanical nonlinearity due to the spatial bunching of atoms by the dipole force. The instabilities corresponding to each nonlinear mechanism occurs in different range of the experimental parameters and can be selected and studied independently. The experimental observations are compared with various theoretical models. In the second part of the thesis, I present our study of the integrated density of states (IDOS) and the local density of states (LDOS) of the bands of a two-dimensional quasicrystal. In an experiment conducted at Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée (LPMC), we realized quasicrystals by disposing dielectric resonators operating in the microwave regime on 2D Penrose tiling. A numerical model including experimental parameters is used to compare to the experimental findings.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:15:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CarlosHOC_TESE.pdf: 15589268 bytes, checksum: 5a0a25bd59fcc76f4d53ba73163991d0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-12-12 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico / In this paper we investigate the spectra of band structures and transmittance in magnonic quasicrystals that exhibit the so-called deterministic disorders, specifically, magnetic multilayer systems, which are built obeying to the generalized Fibonacci (only golden mean (GM), silver mean (SM), bronze mean (BM), copper mean (CM) and nickel mean (NM) cases) and k-component Fibonacci substitutional sequences. The theoretical model is based on the Heisenberg Hamiltonian in the exchange regime, together with the powerful transfer matrix method, and taking into account the RPA approximation. The magnetic materials considered are simple cubic ferromagnets. Our main interest in this study is to investigate the effects of quasiperiodicity on the physical properties of the systems mentioned by analyzing the behavior of spin wave propagation through the dispersion and transmission spectra of these structures. Among of these results we detach: (i) the fragmentation of the bulk bands, which in the limit of high generations, become a Cantor set, and the presence of the mig-gap frequency in the spin waves transmission, for generalized Fibonacci sequence, and (ii) the strong dependence of the magnonic band gap with respect to the parameters k, which determines the amount of different magnetic materials are present in quasicrystal, and n, which is the generation number of the sequence k-component Fibonacci. In this last case, we have verified that the system presents a magnonic band gap, whose width and frequency region can be controlled by varying k and n. In the exchange regime, the spin waves propagate with frequency of the order of a few tens of terahertz (THz). Therefore, from a experimental and technological point of view, the magnonic quasicrystals can be used as carriers or processors of informations, and the magnon (the quantum spin wave) is responsible for this transport and processing / Neste trabalho investigamos espectros de estruturas de banda e de transmit?ncia em quasicristais magn?nicos que apresentam as chamadas desordens determin?sticas, especificamente, sistemas de multicamadas magn?ticas que s?o constru?dos obedecendo as sequ?ncias substitutionais de Fibonacci generalizada (apenas os casos golden mean (GM), silver mean (SM), bronze mean (BM), copper mean (CM) e nickel mean (NM)) e k-componente de Fibonacci. O modelo te?rico ? baseado no hamiltoniano de Heisenberg para o regime de troca, juntamente com o poderoso m?todo da matriz transfer?ncia, e levando em conta a aproxima??o RPA. Os materiais magn?ticos considerados s?o ferromagnetos c?bicos simples. O principal interesse deste estudo ? investigar o efeito da quasi-periodicidade nas propriedades f?sicas dos sistemas citados analisando o comportamento da propaga??o de ondas de spin por meio dos espectros de dispers?o e de transmiss?o dos magnons nestas estruturas. Entre os resultados destacamos: (i) a fragmenta??o das bandas de volume que, no limite de altas gera??es, se tornam conjuntos de Cantor, e a presen?a da frequ?ncia de mid-gap na transmit?ncia das ondas de spin, na sequ?ncia de Fibonacci generalizada; e (ii) a forte depend?ncia do band gap magn?nico com rela??o aos par?metros k, que determina a quantidade de materiais magn?ticos diferentes presentes no quasi-cristal, e n, que ? o n?mero da gera??o da sequ?ncia k-componente de Fibonacci. Neste ?ltimo caso, verificamos que o sistema apresenta uma banda magn?nica proibida, cuja largura e regi?o de frequ?ncia podem ser controladas variando k e n. No regime de troca, as ondas de spin propagam-se com frequ?ncia da ordem de algumas dezenas de terahertz (THz). Portanto, do ponto de vista experimental e tecnol?gico, os quasi-cristais magn?nicos podem ser utilizados como transportadores ou processadores de informa??es, sendo o magnon (o quantum da onda de spin) o respons?vel por esse transporte e processamento

Die Elemente Al, Mg und Zn sind wichtige Komponenten für leichte und hochfeste Legierungen, wie die Al- oder Mg-Knetlegierungen. Darüber hinaus ist das Al-Mg-Zn-System sehr interessant, weil vier ternäre komplexe intermetallische Phasen, genannt τ1, τ2, Φ und q, darin vorkommen. Die aktuellen experimentellen Phasendiagramme des Al-Mg-Zn-Systems enthalten nur provisorische oder keine Homogenitätsbereiche der Φ-, τ2- und der q-Phase aufgrund unzureichender experimenteller Daten. Ziel der Arbeiten war es, die Homogenitätsbereiche der q-, τ2- und der Φ-Phase neu zu ermitteln und die Kristallstruktur der Φ-Phase zu bestimmen. Proben wurden durch Schmelzen und Wärmebehandlung in Ta-Ampullen oder durch Zentrifugieren aus der Schmelze hergestellt und durch XRD, SEM, EDXS, WDXS und DSC charakterisiert. Während der Neuuntersuchung der Al-Mg-Zn Phasengleichgewichte in der Nähe des Teilsystems Mg-Zn und nahe bei τ1 wurde eine Reihe von neuen ternären Phasen entdeckt. Die Kristallstrukturen für die Φ-Phase (Pbcm, a = 8,9374 (2) Å, b = 16,812 (3) Å, c = 19,586 (4) a) und drei der neuen intermetallischen Verbindungen wurden gelöst und die Kristallstruktur des τ2 Phase wurde erneut untersucht. Während τ2 (Pa-3, a = 23,034 (3) Å) ein Approximant der ikosaedrischen quasikristallinen Phase q ist, erwies sich eine der neuen Phasen (τd, Imm2, a = 5,2546 (2), b = 40,240 (2), c = 25,669 (1) Å) als dekagonaler Approximant. Überraschenderweise wurde eine Phase (Fd-3m, a = 27,5937 (9) Å) gefunden, die isotyp zu der binären Phase β-Al3Mg2 ist, aber eine Zn-reiche Zusammensetzung hat. / The elements Al, Mg and Zn are major components for a large number of light and high strength alloys, such as the Al-based alloys of the 7xxx series. In addition, the Al-Mg-Zn system has attracted much interest because four complex metallic alloy phases, called τ1, τ2, Φ and q are formed as ternary intermetallic compounds. The current experimental phase diagrams of the Al-Mg-Zn system contain only provisional or no homogeneity ranges of the Φ phase, τ2 phase and the q phase due to insufficient experimental data. The aim of the work was to redetermine the homogeneity ranges of the q, τ2 and the Φ phases and to determine the crystal structure of the Φ phase for a reliable data set. Samples were prepared by furnace-controlled melting and annealing in Ta ampoules or by centrifugation from the self-flux and characterized by XRD, SEM, EDXS, WDXS and DSC. While reinvestigating the Al-Mg-Zn phase equilibria in the vicinity of the subsystem Mg-Zn close to τ1, a number of new ternary phases were discovered. Single phase material could be obtained for the known Φ and τ2 phases and for four new intermetallic compounds. The crystal structures for the Φ phase and two of the new intermetallic compounds were solved and the crystal structure of the τ2 phase was reinvestigated. While τ2 (Pa-3, a = 23.034(3) Å) is an approximant of the icosahedral quasicrystalline phase q, the Φ phase (Pbcm, a = 8.9374(2) Å, b = 16.812(3) Å, c = 19.586(4) Å) and one of the new phases (Imm2, a = 5.2546(2), b = 40.240(2), c = 25.669(1) Å) turned out to be decagonal approximants. Surprisingly, we have found one phase (Fd-3m, a = 27.5937 (9) Å) isotypic to the Samson’s phase β-Al3Mg2 at Zn rich composition.

Die Elemente Al, Mg und Zn sind wichtige Komponenten für leichte und hochfeste Legierungen, wie die Al- oder Mg-Knetlegierungen. Darüber hinaus ist das Al-Mg-Zn-System sehr interessant, weil vier ternäre komplexe intermetallische Phasen, genannt τ1, τ2, Φ und q, darin vorkommen. Die aktuellen experimentellen Phasendiagramme des Al-Mg-Zn-Systems enthalten nur provisorische oder keine Homogenitätsbereiche der Φ-, τ2- und der q-Phase aufgrund unzureichender experimenteller Daten. Ziel der Arbeiten war es, die Homogenitätsbereiche der q-, τ2- und der Φ-Phase neu zu ermitteln und die Kristallstruktur der Φ-Phase zu bestimmen. Proben wurden durch Schmelzen und Wärmebehandlung in Ta-Ampullen oder durch Zentrifugieren aus der Schmelze hergestellt und durch XRD, SEM, EDXS, WDXS und DSC charakterisiert. Während der Neuuntersuchung der Al-Mg-Zn Phasengleichgewichte in der Nähe des Teilsystems Mg-Zn und nahe bei τ1 wurde eine Reihe von neuen ternären Phasen entdeckt. Die Kristallstrukturen für die Φ-Phase (Pbcm, a = 8,9374 (2) Å, b = 16,812 (3) Å, c = 19,586 (4) a) und drei der neuen intermetallischen Verbindungen wurden gelöst und die Kristallstruktur des τ2 Phase wurde erneut untersucht. Während τ2 (Pa-3, a = 23,034 (3) Å) ein Approximant der ikosaedrischen quasikristallinen Phase q ist, erwies sich eine der neuen Phasen (τd, Imm2, a = 5,2546 (2), b = 40,240 (2), c = 25,669 (1) Å) als dekagonaler Approximant. Überraschenderweise wurde eine Phase (Fd-3m, a = 27,5937 (9) Å) gefunden, die isotyp zu der binären Phase β-Al3Mg2 ist, aber eine Zn-reiche Zusammensetzung hat.:1 Einleitung 1 2 Grundlagen 5 2.1 Frank-Kasper-Phasen und tetraedrisch dicht gepackte Strukturen 5 2.2 Parkettierungen, Quasikristalle and Approximanten 11 2.3 Phasendiagramme und Phasen des Al-Mg-Zn Systems 16 3 Experimentelle Methoden und Theoretische Berechnungen 24 3.1 Ausgangsstoffe 24 3.2 Präparation der Proben 24 3.2.1 Schmelzspinnen 25 3.2.2 Schmelzzentrifugation 26 3.2.3 Abkühlvarianten 26 3.3 Charakterisierung der Legierungen 27 3.3.1 Chemische Analysen 27 3.3.2 Metallografie, Röntgenspektroskopie, Elektronenbeugung 28 3.3.3 DSC- und Massendichtemessungen, Messungen des elektrischen Widerstands 29 3.3.4 Pulver-Röntgendiffraktion und Pulver-Neutronendiffraktion 29 3.3.5 Einkristall-Röntgendiffraktion 30 3.4 Theoretische Berechnungen 31 3.4.1 Berechnungen der elektronischen Struktur 31 3.4.2 Gesamtenergieberechnungen 31 3.4.3 Calphad-Berechnungen und DTA-Simulation 32 4 Ergebnisse 34 4.1 Die Phi-Phase 34 4.1.1 Phasenanalyse 35 4.1.2 Physikalische Eigenschaften 44 4.1.3 Kristallchemie 45 4.1.4 Ergebnisse der Gesamtenergieberechnungen, DOS 57 4.2 Die tau-2-Phase 59 4.2.1 Phasenanalyse 60 4.2.2 Strukturmodellierung mit kanonischen Zell-Parkettierungen 73 4.2.3 Strukturverfeinerung 77 4.2.4 Kristallchemie 83 4.2.5 Ergebnisse der Gesamtenergieberechnungen 88 4.3 Primäre Phasenfelder der Mg-reichen Seite des Al-Mg-Zn Systems und die q-Phase 93 4.3.1 Die quasikristalline Phase q und ihr komplex-reguläres Eutektikum 98 4.4 Neue komplexe intermetallische Verbindungen im Al-Mg-Zn System 106 4.4.1 Phasenanalytische Untersuchungen in der Nähe des binären Teilsystems Mg-Zn 106 4.4.2 Physikalische Eigenschaften 113 4.4.3 Kristallchemie 114 4.4.3.1 Die beta-Zn-Phase 114 4.4.3.2 Die tau-d-Phase, ein dekagonaler Approximant 125 4.4.3.3 Die lambda-Phase 134 5 Zusammenfassung 141 6 Literatur 149 A Anhang 159 A.1 Verfeinerung der Einkristall-Röntgenbeugungsdaten 159 A.2 Grundlagen der DTA-Simulation 160 A.2.1 DTA-Simulation in VBA für den Excel-Export von Pandat2012 161 A.3 Zusätzliche Information über die Phi-Phase des Al-Mg-Zn Systems 168 A.3.1 Informationen zu den effektiven Paarpotentialen für das ternäre Al-Mg-Zn System 172 A.4 Zusätzliche Informationen über die tau-2-Phase im Al-Mg-Zn System 175 A.5 Zusätzliche Informationen über die Abtastung der primären Phasenfelder 180 A.6 Zusätzliche Informationen über die beta-Zn-Phase im System Al-Mg-Zn 185 A.7 Zusätzliche Informationen über die tau-d-Phase im System Al-Mg-Zn 191 A.8 Zusätzliche Informationen über die lambda-Phase im System Al-Mg-Zn 195 / The elements Al, Mg and Zn are major components for a large number of light and high strength alloys, such as the Al-based alloys of the 7xxx series. In addition, the Al-Mg-Zn system has attracted much interest because four complex metallic alloy phases, called τ1, τ2, Φ and q are formed as ternary intermetallic compounds. The current experimental phase diagrams of the Al-Mg-Zn system contain only provisional or no homogeneity ranges of the Φ phase, τ2 phase and the q phase due to insufficient experimental data. The aim of the work was to redetermine the homogeneity ranges of the q, τ2 and the Φ phases and to determine the crystal structure of the Φ phase for a reliable data set. Samples were prepared by furnace-controlled melting and annealing in Ta ampoules or by centrifugation from the self-flux and characterized by XRD, SEM, EDXS, WDXS and DSC. While reinvestigating the Al-Mg-Zn phase equilibria in the vicinity of the subsystem Mg-Zn close to τ1, a number of new ternary phases were discovered. Single phase material could be obtained for the known Φ and τ2 phases and for four new intermetallic compounds. The crystal structures for the Φ phase and two of the new intermetallic compounds were solved and the crystal structure of the τ2 phase was reinvestigated. While τ2 (Pa-3, a = 23.034(3) Å) is an approximant of the icosahedral quasicrystalline phase q, the Φ phase (Pbcm, a = 8.9374(2) Å, b = 16.812(3) Å, c = 19.586(4) Å) and one of the new phases (Imm2, a = 5.2546(2), b = 40.240(2), c = 25.669(1) Å) turned out to be decagonal approximants. Surprisingly, we have found one phase (Fd-3m, a = 27.5937 (9) Å) isotypic to the Samson’s phase β-Al3Mg2 at Zn rich composition.:1 Einleitung 1 2 Grundlagen 5 2.1 Frank-Kasper-Phasen und tetraedrisch dicht gepackte Strukturen 5 2.2 Parkettierungen, Quasikristalle and Approximanten 11 2.3 Phasendiagramme und Phasen des Al-Mg-Zn Systems 16 3 Experimentelle Methoden und Theoretische Berechnungen 24 3.1 Ausgangsstoffe 24 3.2 Präparation der Proben 24 3.2.1 Schmelzspinnen 25 3.2.2 Schmelzzentrifugation 26 3.2.3 Abkühlvarianten 26 3.3 Charakterisierung der Legierungen 27 3.3.1 Chemische Analysen 27 3.3.2 Metallografie, Röntgenspektroskopie, Elektronenbeugung 28 3.3.3 DSC- und Massendichtemessungen, Messungen des elektrischen Widerstands 29 3.3.4 Pulver-Röntgendiffraktion und Pulver-Neutronendiffraktion 29 3.3.5 Einkristall-Röntgendiffraktion 30 3.4 Theoretische Berechnungen 31 3.4.1 Berechnungen der elektronischen Struktur 31 3.4.2 Gesamtenergieberechnungen 31 3.4.3 Calphad-Berechnungen und DTA-Simulation 32 4 Ergebnisse 34 4.1 Die Phi-Phase 34 4.1.1 Phasenanalyse 35 4.1.2 Physikalische Eigenschaften 44 4.1.3 Kristallchemie 45 4.1.4 Ergebnisse der Gesamtenergieberechnungen, DOS 57 4.2 Die tau-2-Phase 59 4.2.1 Phasenanalyse 60 4.2.2 Strukturmodellierung mit kanonischen Zell-Parkettierungen 73 4.2.3 Strukturverfeinerung 77 4.2.4 Kristallchemie 83 4.2.5 Ergebnisse der Gesamtenergieberechnungen 88 4.3 Primäre Phasenfelder der Mg-reichen Seite des Al-Mg-Zn Systems und die q-Phase 93 4.3.1 Die quasikristalline Phase q und ihr komplex-reguläres Eutektikum 98 4.4 Neue komplexe intermetallische Verbindungen im Al-Mg-Zn System 106 4.4.1 Phasenanalytische Untersuchungen in der Nähe des binären Teilsystems Mg-Zn 106 4.4.2 Physikalische Eigenschaften 113 4.4.3 Kristallchemie 114 4.4.3.1 Die beta-Zn-Phase 114 4.4.3.2 Die tau-d-Phase, ein dekagonaler Approximant 125 4.4.3.3 Die lambda-Phase 134 5 Zusammenfassung 141 6 Literatur 149 A Anhang 159 A.1 Verfeinerung der Einkristall-Röntgenbeugungsdaten 159 A.2 Grundlagen der DTA-Simulation 160 A.2.1 DTA-Simulation in VBA für den Excel-Export von Pandat2012 161 A.3 Zusätzliche Information über die Phi-Phase des Al-Mg-Zn Systems 168 A.3.1 Informationen zu den effektiven Paarpotentialen für das ternäre Al-Mg-Zn System 172 A.4 Zusätzliche Informationen über die tau-2-Phase im Al-Mg-Zn System 175 A.5 Zusätzliche Informationen über die Abtastung der primären Phasenfelder 180 A.6 Zusätzliche Informationen über die beta-Zn-Phase im System Al-Mg-Zn 185 A.7 Zusätzliche Informationen über die tau-d-Phase im System Al-Mg-Zn 191 A.8 Zusätzliche Informationen über die lambda-Phase im System Al-Mg-Zn 195