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Synchronous γ (Co60) photons and thermal processing induced insulator metal transition in amorphous chalcogenide As4Se3Te3 composition

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Amorphous chalcogenide composition AS4Se3Te3 is prepared by conventional quenching technique. The separate annealing or γ quanta irradiation not effect on the dc conductivity properties of the prepared composition. When the prepared samples are subjected to simultaneous annealing at temperature 413 K and γ quanta irradiation the dc conductivity increases. The dark dc conductivity increases by increasing the time of exposure to γ irradiation. At irradiation dose 1.47 × 104 Gy the dc conductivity starts to have metallic like conductivity character. These samples could be used as high temperature γ quanta dosimeter. By applying scaling theory on the samples irradiated with different dose of γ irradiation the critical exponents are determined and found to be < 2. The dark dc conductivity continuously decreases to 0 as temperature tends to zero. The steric value is low in the insulator side of conductivity, but high and almost saturated in the metallic side of conductivity.

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El-Sayed, S.A., Morsy, M.A. Synchronous γ (Co60) photons and thermal processing induced insulator metal transition in amorphous chalcogenide As4Se3Te3 composition. Indian J Phys 92, 629–635 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12648-017-1147-3

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