Anisotropic Hall effect in Al13TM4 approximants

Ivkov, Jovica; Popčević, Petar; Stanic, Denis; Bauer, Birgitta; Gille, Peter; Dolinšek, Janez und Smontara, Ana (2011): Anisotropic Hall effect in Al13TM4 approximants. In: Philosophical Magazine, Bd. 91, Nr. 19-21: S. 2739-2745

Abstract

The Hall coefficient, RH, in monoclinic Y-Al-Ni-Co, orthorhombic Al13Co4 and monoclinic Al13Fe4 and Al13(Fe,Ni) 4 single crystals was investigated for all combinations of the electrical current and magnetic field directions and in the temperature interval from 90 to 370 K. In all three intermetallics, which belong to the Al 13TM4 (TM = transition metal) class of approximants to the decagonal quasicrystals, the Hall coefficient exhibits well-defined anisotropy. RH is positive hole-like or zero for the magnetic field parallel to the plane that corresponds to the quasiperiodic plane in decagonal (d-) quasicrystals, and is negative electron-like or zero for the magnetic field perpendicular to this plane. The only exception is RH in Al13Fe 4 for the field parallel to the stacking direction, which changes its sign from positive to negative value with an increase of temperature. The results for the anisotropy of RH are correlated to the anisotropy of RH in d-Al-Ni-Co and d-Al-Cu-Co quasicrystals and a brief overview of the theoretical results is presented.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Geowissenschaften > Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften > Kristallographie und Materialwissenschaft
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie
• Sprache: Englisch