Symmetry and Asymmetry in Quasicrystals or Amorphous Materials

• Other Authors: Barber, Enrique Maciá (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Research & information: general; nucleic acids; aperiodic; quasiperiodic; fractal; order; disorder; energy structure; charge transport; Mg-Zn-Gd alloys; symmetrical rod phase; quasicrystal; morphologies and properties; quasiperiodic order; self-similarity; quasiperiodic photonic micro/nanostructures; fractal-like photonic micro/nanostructures; quasiperiodic or fractal-like plasmonic structures; non-periodic systems; localization properties; electrical transmission lines; quasiperiodicity; localization; tight-binding model; Kubo formula; low-dimensional systems; n/a
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About forty years after its discovery, it is still common to read in the literature that quasicrystals (QCs) occupy an intermediate position between amorphous materials and periodic crystals. However, QCs exhibit high-quality diffraction patterns containing a collection of discrete Bragg reflections...