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The Hg-Cd-Zn-Te phase diagram

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Selected values are gathered for the crystalline compounds HgTe, CdTe, and ZnTe and their elements. Then the phase diagram and remaining thermodynamic data for these binaries and the Hg-Cd-Te, Hg-Zn-Te,and Cd-Zn-Te ternaries are fit with an associated solution model for the liquid phase anda quasiregular model for the pseudobinaries. Finally, no adjustable model parameters remaining, some features of the Hg-Cd-Zn-Te quaternary are calculated.

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Yu, T.C., Brebrick, R.F. The Hg-Cd-Zn-Te phase diagram. JPE 13, 476–496 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02665761

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