Calorimetric investigations of liquid Ge-Te and Si-Te alloys

Abstract

The heats of solution of Ge and Te in liquid Ge-Te alloys and of Si in liquid Si-Te alloys were determined in a heat flow calorimeter at different temperatures. The excess enthalpies were calculated from the measured heat effects. In addition the heats of formation of liquid Ge-Te alloys were measured at 1203 K. The associate model was used to describe the thermodynamic functions. Minima of the enthalpy curves in the Ge-Te and Si-Te systems at 1213 K were found at 57 mol.% Te and −11.2 kJ mol−1 and at 62 mol.% Te and −22.3 kJ mol−1 respectively. A temperature dependence of the excess enthalpies was only observed in the Ge-Te system below about 1093 K. The enthalpies of the Si-Te system exhibited an almost linear temperature dependence.