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Thermal Annealing as a Means of Controlling the Properties of Magnetic Semiconducting Selenide Spinels

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Single crystals of Hg1–хCdxCr2Se4 solid solutions with the normal spinel structure have been prepared via thermal annealing and characterized by X-ray microanalysis. Thermal annealing is a viable alternative to a previously proposed method: flux growth with CdCl2 as a solvent. Doping of the solid solutions with gallium and/or gallium selenide has been shown to ensure a considerable increase in the Curie temperature of the material.

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This work was supported by the Russian Federation Ministry of Science and Higher Education as part of the state research target for the Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences.

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    T. K. Menshchikova, A. E. Baranchikov, K. S. Nikonov, L. A. Vaimugin, O. E. Myslitskii & M. N. Brekhovskikh

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Menshchikova, T.K., Baranchikov, A.E., Nikonov, K.S. et al. Thermal Annealing as a Means of Controlling the Properties of Magnetic Semiconducting Selenide Spinels. Inorg Mater 59, 819–824 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168523080125

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