Application of Mössbauer effect spectroscopy to the study of quasicrystalline materials

Abstract

The application of Mössbauer effect spectroscopy to the study of both icosahedral and decagonal quasicrystalline solids is reviewed. The application of different fitting models to both paramagnetic and weakly ferromagnetic quasicrystalline alloys is discussed, as well as the interpretation of information obtained from these data. Measurements from the literature are reviewed and are considered in the context of structural, electronic and magnetic models of quasicrystalline ordering in solids. New experimental results for stable quasicrystalline alloys with both icosahedral and decagonal symmetry are presented, as are extensions of the analyses previously presented in the literature for a number of systems, and these results are discussed in the context of the fundamental physical properties of these materials.