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First Results on the Electronic Distributions of Zn-Mg-Y Alloys as Investigated by Soft X-ray Spectroscopies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2011

Belin-Ferré Esther
Affiliation:
LCPMR, UMR 7614, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
Fournée Vincent
Affiliation:
LCPMR, UMR 7614, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
Sadoc Anne
Affiliation:
LPMS, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, 95031 Cergy-Pontoise Cedex, France and LURE, Bat. 209 D, Centre Universitaire Paris Sud, BP 34, 91898 Orsay Cedex France
Fontaine Marie Françoise
Affiliation:
LCPMR, UMR 7614, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
Dankhazi Zoltan
Affiliation:
Institute for Solid State Physics, ELTE, Pasmany P. Setany 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary
Müller Herbert
Affiliation:
Institüt für Experimentalphysik, TU-Wien, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10, 1040 Wien, Austria
Tsai An Pang
Affiliation:
NRIM, Sengen 1-2-1, Tsukuba 305-0047, Japan
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Abstract

We report our first results on the electronic structure of icosahedral Zn55Mg35Y10 as compared to hexagonal Zn65Mg28Y7 and to the conventional Zn2Mg alloy. The occupied Mg 3s,d, and Mg 3p on the one hand and empty Mg p, Zn d-s and Y d-s states on the other hand have been investigated using soft X-ray emission and photoabsorption spectroscopy, respectively. The various sub-bands presented for Mg are adjusted in the binding energy scale whereas for the other elements they are plotted in the X-ray transition energy scale. We observe that the metallic character of the samples progressively decreases when going from the pure metals to the icosahedral compound.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2001

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