Paper by T. Ouisse & D. Pinek 2018

The paper "Phonon dispersion curves in Cr2AlC single-crystals" has been published in Materials Research Letters
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Her you will find the paper by  Thierry Ouisse and Damir Pinek

"Neutron inelastic scattering is used for the first time to measure phonon dispersion branches in Cr2AlC MAX phase single crystals with appreciable size. Phonon spectra are also calculated within the Density Functional Perturbation Theory (DFPT) framework and exhibit a very good match with experimental data, including high energy carbon-related optical branches. Both experiments and ab initio simulations confirm the existence of a substantial phonon gap and discard the presence of any softening mode or possible magnetic effect.