High-temperature heat capacity of the Al63Cu25Fe12 quasicrystal

摘要

The mechanisms of energy absorption by metallic alloys with long-range aperiodic lattice order and electronic properties of marginal metals are studied. The heat capacity and linear expansion coefficient of the Al63Cu25Fe12 icosahedral phase in the temperature range 300-1000 K are measured for the first time. Disagreement between the measured heat capacity and predictions made from the Debye model is found and analyzed. It is shown that the excess heat capacity observed at the temperatures of the experiment is fitted by Einstein's function in the approximation T