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The effect of tellurium additions on the crystallization and electrical characteristics of the ZnSb compound

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The effect of alloying with tellurium on the crystallization process, structure formation, and electrical characteristics in the ZnSb compound was investigated. It was shown that the peritectic transformation at 546°C in the Zn-Sb system [1] is due to a change in the structure of the melt resulting from an increase in its antimony content during the growth of Zn4Sb3 crystals. The alloying of the melt (50 at.% Zn, 50 at.% Sb) with tellurium, which promotes the single-phase crystallization of ZnSb, has a similar effect to that of antimony. The addition of tellurium (up to 0.001%) to the ZnSb compound leads to an increase in the Hall constant and the concentration of the current carriers (holes) and a decrease in the electrical conductivity.

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    T. A. Kostur & V. I. Psarev

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii Fizika, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 118–122, January, 1969.

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Kostur, T.A., Psarev, V.I. The effect of tellurium additions on the crystallization and electrical characteristics of the ZnSb compound. Soviet Physics Journal 12, 88–91 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00815526

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