Electronic Transport in Al-Pd-Re Quasicrystalline Multigrain Samples

Quasicrystalline (QC) samples display unusual electronic transport properties, including very high room temperature resistivities and in certain cases even metal-insulator transitions (MIT). Most of these materials are ternary alloys, annealed at high temperatures in order to form the icosahedral (I) QC structure and then quenched very rapidly to room temperature