Abstract
Abstract We have investigated anisotropic electrical resistivity and thermoelectric power of the ypsilon-phase Al–Ni–Co (Y–Al–Ni–Co) decagonal approximant with composition Al76Co22Ni2. The crystalline-direction-dependent measurements were performed along three orthogonal directions a*, b and c of the Y–Al–Ni–Co unit cell, where (a, c) monoclinic atomic planes are stacked along the perpendicular b direction. Anisotropic electrical resistivity is low in all crystalline directions, appearing in the order ρ a* > ρ c > ρ b and showing positive temperature coefficient typical of electron-phonon scattering mechanism. Thermopower shows electron-phonon enhancement effect. Anisotropic bare thermopower (in the absence of electron-phonon interactions) was extracted, appearing in the same order as the resistivity, ΙS a* bare/TΙ > Ι S c bare/T Ι > Ι S b bare/T Ι.
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