Surfaces of Al-based complex metallic alloys: atomic structure, thin film growth and reactivity

J Ledieu, É Gaudry, V Fournée - Science and technology of …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a review on recent work performed on periodic complex metallic alloy (CMA)
surfaces. The electronic and crystallographic structures of clean pseudo-tenfold, pseudo …

Quasicrystal surfaces: structure and growth of atomic overlayers

HR Sharma, M Shimoda, AP Tsai - Advances in Physics, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
We review recent developments in surface studies of single-grain quasicrystals under ultra
high-vacuum conditions, focusing on two different topics: surface structure and growth of …

Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy Studies of Tsai‐Type Quasicrystal Approximants

S Coates, D Burnie, HR Sharma… - Israel Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We review scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) studies of the surfaces of periodic Tsai‐
type approximants. Although they are useful analogues to the Tsai‐type quasicrystals, the …

Structure of the fivefold surface of the Ag-In-Yb icosahedral quasicrystal

HR Sharma, M Shimoda, K Sagisaka, H Takakura… - Physical Review B …, 2009 - APS
The surface structural study of an icosahedral (i) quasicrystal of the Cd-Yb family is
presented. Comparison of bias-dependent scanning tunneling microscopy data from the …

The surface science of quasicrystals

R McGrath, JA Smerdon, HR Sharma… - Journal of Physics …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The surfaces of quasicrystals have been extensively studied since about 1990. In this paper
we review work on the structure and morphology of clean surfaces, and their electronic and …

Structure investigation of the (100) surface of the orthorhombic crystal

R Addou, E Gaudry, T Deniozou, M Heggen… - Physical Review B …, 2009 - APS
We present a detailed study of the (100) surface of the orthorhombic Al 13 Co 4 crystal using
both experimental and ab initio computational methods. This complex metallic alloy is an …

The atomic structure of the threefold surface of the icosahedral Ag–In–Yb quasicrystal

C Cui, PJ Nugent, M Shimoda, J Ledieu… - Journal of Physics …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a study of the atomic structure of the threefold icosahedral (i-) Ag–In–Yb
quasicrystal surface using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and low energy electron …

Structural investigation of the (110) surface of

E Gaudry, AK Shukla, T Duguet, J Ledieu… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
We present a detailed study of the (110) surface of the γ-Al 4 Cu 9 crystal using both
experimental methods and first-principles calculations based on density-functional theory …

In-situ Growth of Ultrathin Magnetic Films and Tuning the Magnetic Properties by Ion-sculpting

AK Bera, D Kumar - arxiv preprint arxiv:2302.11941, 2023 - arxiv.org
Magnetic anisotropy is a key parameter of magnetic materials as it decides the response in
the presence of an external magnetic field. The artificial tailoring of magnetic anisotropy by …

In-Situ Investigation of Ion Beam-Induced Crossover in Uniaxial Magnetic Anisotropy of Polycrystalline Fe Films

AK Bera, D Kumar - ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2020 - ACS Publications
A combined role of structure and morphology of polycrystalline Fe thin films in the evolution
of uniaxial magnetic anisotropy (UMA) subjected to several cycles of the ion beam erosion …