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Growth and Properties of CuGa5Se8 Single Crystals

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CuGa5Se8 single crystals were grown by the Bridgman-Stockbarger method (vertical geometry), and their composition and structure were determined. The melting point of CuGa5Se8 was established by differential thermal analysis, and its band gap was evaluated using transmission and reflection measurements near its intrinsic edge at 80 and 300 K. The thermal expansion of CuGa5Se8 was studied by dilatometry using single-crystal samples oriented parallel and perpendicular to the tetragonal axis.

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Translated from Neorganicheskie Materialy, Vol. 41, No. 6, 2005, pp. 650–655.

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Bodnar, I.V. Growth and Properties of CuGa5Se8 Single Crystals. Inorg Mater 41, 560–564 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10789-005-0169-y

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