PHASE EQUILIBRIA OF THE PbBi2Te4–"PbSb2Te4" SECTION OF THE PbTe–Bi2Te3–Sb2Te3 SYSTEM AND SOME PROPERTIES OF THE SOLID SOLUTIONS

Abstract

PbTe–Bi2Te3–Sb2Te3 system has been studied by DTA and X-ray diffraction methods along the PbBi2Te4 – "PbSb2Te4" section. It was found that the compound of the composition PbSb2Te4, specified in the literature does not exist. On the basis of the latter a wide (more than 50 mol%) area of solid solution (γ) was detected. By using obtained experimental results, a fragment of the solid-phase equilibrium diagram of the PbTe–Bi2Te3–Sb2Te3 system was constructed and boundaries of the heterogeneous areas α+γ, α+β, α+β+γ (α- and β- are solid solutions based on PbTe and Sb2Te3, respectively) have been determined