Fig. 2
From: Quasicrystal nucleation and ℤ module twin growth in an intermetallic glass-forming system
Tenfold twinned NiZr. Dendritic microstructure of NiZr cross-sections (a (scale bar 500 μm): optical polarization micrograph; b (scale bar 100 μm) and c (scale bar 200 μm): false-color EBSD-maps) is confirmed by a series of IPFs (bottom): A single cluster of crystal orientations aligns with the axial growth direction along a common [001]-axis of the NiZr twin domains, while a perfect tenfold clustering is observed for perpendicular 〈110〉-directions. Circular IPFs represent the crystallographic orientations for the complete EBSD-map of a slightly inclined sample; decagonal, alignment-corrected IPFs highlight perfect orientational relationships for the highlighted central part of the microtwin
