Crystal Structure of LiRh‐type IrZn Determined by Powder X‐ray and Selected Area Electron Diffraction

Abstract

The LiRh-type crystal structure of the equiatomic intermetallic compound IrZn turns out to be a competitor to the otherwise energetically favored CsCl-type structures of congeneric transition * Dr. W. Hornfeck E-Mail: hornfeck@fzu.cz [a] 407 metal zinc phases, thus enlightening the structural impact of elementspecific factors beyond the Hume-Rothery concept.