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THE transition under pressure to a phase showing metallic conduction in indium antimonide (InSb) was first found by Gebbie et al.1and confirmed by Jayaraman et al.2. These workers2gave a phase diagram with a triple point between InSb–I, InSb–II and liquid InSb, and showed that the conducting phase was solid. They also gave a minimum estimate of 20 per cent for the volume change on passing from InSb–I to InSb–II and suggested that, since tin lies between indium and antimony in the periodic table and InSb–I has the zinc-blende structure analogous to the diamond structure of grey tin, the new phase probably possessed the tetragonal white tin structure.
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SMITH, P., MARTIN, J. Structure of the High-pressure Phase of Indium Antimonide. Nature 196, 762–763 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/196762a0
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