Abstract
A structural model for the short-range-ordered state in , with , observed at low temperatures, is proposed. The model describes the complicated diffuse intensity contours with "mixed" microdomains consisting of cells of the type. A simple distortion, i.e., a relaxation of the D atoms towards vacant sites, is introduced in the "mixed" microdomain and accounts for the measured intensity asymmetry. Furthermore, a measurement of the intensities of the superlattice reflections in the long-range-ordered Mo structure is presented, and its result is reproduced by calculation, when the same relaxation towards the vacancy, is assumed. Finally an important Debye-Waller factor for the superlattice reflections is found.
- Received 6 February 1981
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.24.277
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