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The high-temperature X-ray diffraction technique is used to study AgCuSe0.5(S,Te)0.5 crystals. It is shown that, at room temperature, the AgCuSe0.5S0.5 crystal is composed of Cu1.96S and AgCuSe phases. At a temperature of 695 K, these phases transform into a single face-centered cubic (fcc) phase. The transformation is reversible. The AgCuSe0.5Te0.5 composition consists of three phases, specifically, Cu2Te, AgCuSe, and a cubic phase. At 444 K, both orthorhombic phases simultaneously transform into a diamond-like cubic phase. In this transformation, the cubic phase plays the role of a seed. From the temperature dependence of the lattice parameters, the thermal-expansion coefficients of the phases involved in both compositions are calculated for the main crystallographic directions.
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Original Russian Text © Y.I. Aliyev, Y.G. Asadov, R.D. Aliyeva, S.H. Jabarov, 2017, published in Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 2017, Vol. 51, No. 6, pp. 766–772.
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Aliyev, Y.I., Asadov, Y.G., Aliyeva, R.D. et al. Polymorphic transformations and thermal expansion in AgCuSe0.5(S,Te)0.5 crystals. Semiconductors 51, 732–739 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782617060045
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