Aluminum based alloys which contain transition metal elements with concentrations up to
25% and additional small quantities of silicon, have a wide variety of atomic structures with …

The design of solids with tailored material properties requires a thorough understanding of
their electronic structures. Examining the latter typically includes chemical-bonding …

The Hume–Rothery matching rule 2kF= Khkl has been theoretically investigated by
performing the LMTO-ASA (Linear Muffin-Tin Orbital–Atomic Sphere Approximation) band …

The optical conductivity of quasicrystals is characterized by two features not seen in ordinary
metallic systems. There is an absence of the Drude peak and the interband conductivity …

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The electrons per atom ratio e/a is an important factor in discussing the stabilization
mechanism of metallic glasses. However, the e/a assignment is complicated by hybridization …

We present an extensive study of the approximant phases present in the Al-Cu-Fe phase
diagram in the vicinity of the icosahedral phase. In addition to the rhombohedral and the two …

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is expected to partly determine the topologically nontrivial
electronic structure of heavy half-Heusler ternary compounds. However, to date, attempts to …

This paper summarises a two-hour discussion at the Ninth International Conference on
Quasicrystals, including nearly 20 written comments sent afterwards, concerning (i) the …