A Review of Transmission Electron Microscopy of Quasicrystals—How Are Atoms Arranged?

• Main Authors: Li, Ruitao, Li, Zhong, Dong, Zhili, Khor, Khiam Aik
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Quasicrystal; Transmission electron microscopy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83445; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42581
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Quasicrystals (QCs) possess rotational symmetries forbidden in the conventional crystallography and lack translational symmetries. Their atoms are arranged in an ordered but non-periodic way. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) was the right tool to discover such exotic materials and has always b...