Synthesis and structural charaterization of the alloys (CuInTe2)1-x (Cu3-MT-Te4) x (MT: Nb, Ta with x = 1/10, 1/5, 1/3, 1/2 y 2/3)

Authors

  • Menjamin Salas Universidad Nacional Experimental de Los Llanos Occidentales Ezequiel Zamora, Venezuela.
  • Ernesto Calderón Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela.
  • Miguel Soto Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela.
  • Freddy Fernández Rojas Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela.

Keywords:

Semiconductors, alloys, X-ray, diffraction, differential thermal analysis, phase diagram

Abstract

In this work we reported the characterization of the (CuInTe2)1-x (Cu3-BV- Te4)x (BV: Nb, Ta y x = 1/10, 1/5, 1/3, 1/2 y 2/3, alloys system using the techniques Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), X- Ray Diffraction (XRD) and Differential Thermal Analysis (DTA). Alloys system was prepared by fusion and annealing direct fulfilling the rule of Grimm-Sommerfeld. The work is based on the thermograms of the CuInTe2 and Cu3NbTe4 compounds that were previously measured and incorporated in the phase diagrams for the system (CuInTe2)1-x (Cu3-MT-Te4) at x = 0 and x = 1; with the intention of obtaining the best information of the phases from x = 0 to x = 1. In these phase diagrams of the alloy family, we obtained in the concentration ranges, the following phases: in 0 < x < 0,1, the phase type chalcopyrite, for 0 < x <  0,9 two phases, sulvanita and chalcopyrite and for 0,9 < x < 1, the sulvanita phase. The solubility of the sulvanita Cu3NbTe4 in the chalcopyrite is of the approximately 10 % like solubility of the CuInTe2 in the sulvanita. This little solubility did impossible to increase to the breach of energy for the family chalcopyrite.

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2017 Vol 11 nro 1

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2017-06-30

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M. Salas, E. Calderón, M. Soto, and F. Fernández Rojas, “Synthesis and structural charaterization of the alloys (CuInTe2)1-x (Cu3-MT-Te4) x (MT: Nb, Ta with x = 1/10, 1/5, 1/3, 1/2 y 2/3)”, Publ.Cienc.Tecnol, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 7-16, Jun. 2017.

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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2017): January-June

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