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In the course of thermal cycling, which involved heating to T ∼ 500 K followed by cooling, samarium sulfide (SmS) single crystals exhibited sudden temperature drops with a magnitude of up to 125 K. This effect can be related to a semiconductor-metal phase transition characteristic of SmS.
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Translated from Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l}\) Fiziki, Vol. 31, No. 14, 2005, pp. 45–49.
Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Kaminski\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l}\), Solov’ev.
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Kaminskii, V.V., Solov’ev, S.M. Thermal effects in homogeneously heated samarium sulfide single crystals. Tech. Phys. Lett. 31, 603–604 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.2001067
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