Small-angle grain boundaries in quasicrystals

Hatwalne, Yashodhan and Krishnamurthy, HR and Pandit, Rahul and Ramaswamy, Sriram (1989) Small-angle grain boundaries in quasicrystals. In: Physical Review Letters, 62 (23). pp. 2699-2702.

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Abstract

The Read-Shockley treatment of small-angle grain boundaries in crystals is generalized to the case of quasicrystals. The dependence of the grain-boundary energy on the angle of mismatch between abutting quasicrystalline grains is calculated. It is found that, even for a symmetric tilt boundary in a quasicrystal, dislocations with at least two types of Burgers vectors are required; these dislocations have to be arranged quasiperiodically along the boundary. The possible clumping of these dislocations to form composites is discussed. Explicit calculations are presented for a pentagonal quasicrystal.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Additional Information:	Copyright for this article belongs to American Physical Society
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	15 Nov 2004
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:14
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/id/eprint/1156

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