It took Dan Shechtman more than two years to get his discovery of an Al–Mn phase with
icosahedral diffraction symmetry and sharp Bragg reflections published. A paradigm shift …

Despite the rapid progress in the field of the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, most of the
QSH systems studied up to now are based on crystalline materials. Here we propose that …

We review recent developments in surface studies of single-grain quasicrystals under ultra
high-vacuum conditions, focusing on two different topics: surface structure and growth of …

Quasicrystals are materials with long-range ordering but no periodicity. We report scanning
tunneling microscopy (STM) observations of quasicrystalline molecular layers on 5-fold …

Quasicrystals, materials with aperiodic long-range order, have been found in intermetallics,
soft materials such as colloids and supermolecules, and also in two-dimensional monolayer …

If crystal structures can be viewed as repositories of information, then crystal surfaces offer a
pathway by which this information can be used to grow new structures through the process …

The surfaces of quasicrystals have been extensively studied since about 1990. In this paper
we review work on the structure and morphology of clean surfaces, and their electronic and …

Lead has been deposited on the 10-fold surface of decagonal Al72Ni11Co17 at room
temperature to form an epitaxial quasicrystalline single-element monolayer. The overlayer …

We present a study of growth of quasicrystalline bismuth (Bi) thin films on the five-fold
surface of the icosahedral Ag-In-Yb quasicrystal using scanning tunnelling microscopy …

Novel epitaxial quasicrystalline films can be grown using the surfaces of intermetallic
quasicrystals as templates. Here, we present a study of Pb adsorption on the threefold i-Ag …