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Thermal expansion in the temperature range 80–700 K is studied for two (trigonal and hexagonal) structural modifications of CuIn5Se8 single crystals grown by planar crystallization of the melt. From the data, the thermal-expansion coefficients are calculated for both modifications. It is established that, in the temperature range under study, the thermal expansion of both modifications is anisotropic. For the trigonal modification, the thermal-expansion coefficient in the direction of the c axis (α c ) is larger than that in the direction of the orthogonal a axis (α a ). For the hexagonal modification of the CuIn5Se8 crystal, the thermal-expansion coefficient in the direction of the c axis exhibits anomalous behavior: as the temperature is increased, the coefficient α c increases, after which it decreases to negative values, reaches a minimum, and then increases further. Such behavior of the coefficient α c is associated with the phase transformation of the hexagonal modification of the CuIn5Se8 compound into the trigonal modification.
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Original Russian Text © I.V. Bodnar, 2016, published in Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 2016, Vol. 50, No. 5, pp. 577–581.
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Bodnar, I.V. Anisotropy of the thermal expansion of CuIn5Se8 single crystals in two structural modifications. Semiconductors 50, 567–571 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782616050055
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