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Quaternary compounds Cu2ZnSnS4 and Cu2ZnSnSe4 and solid solutions on their basis have been fabricated by one-temperature synthesis from elementary components: Cu, Zn, Sn, S, and Se. Single crystals of these compounds have been grown by the method of chemical gas-transport reactions from polycrystalline samples. The compositional dependence of the unit-cell parameters of Cu2ZnSn(S x Se1–x )4 has been investigated by X-ray diffraction. It is found that parameters a and c linearly decrease with an increase in sulfur concentration in accordance with Vegard’s law. The temperature dependences of parameters a and thermalexpansion coefficients α a of Cu2ZnSnS4 and Cu2ZnSnSe4 single crystals in the range of 100–300 K are determined.
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Original Russian Text © A.U. Sheleg, V.G. Hurtavy, V.A. Chumak, 2015, published in Kristallografiya, 2015, Vol. 60, No. 5, pp. 826–830.
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Sheleg, A.U., Hurtavy, V.G. & Chumak, V.A. Synthesis and X-ray diffraction study of Cu2ZnSn(S x Se1-x )4 solid solutions. Crystallogr. Rep. 60, 758–762 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063774515040203
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