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Electrical conductivity and thermoelectric power of amorphous Sb2Te3 thin films and amorphous-crystalline transition

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The results of electrical conductivity and thermoelectric studies on antimony telluride, a promising thermoelectric material, in the thin film state are reported. Films were vacuum-deposited on to clean glass substrates with thickness between 50 and 200 nm and studied in the temperature interval 300 to 470 K. On heating the as-grown films, there is a sharp fall both in the Seebeck coefficient and the electrical resistivity at around 340 to 370 K for all the films. This is attributed to an amorphous to crystalline transition, which is confirmed by X-ray diffractogram and electron diffraction patterns.[/p]

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Damodara Das, V., Soundararajan, N. & Pattabi, M. Electrical conductivity and thermoelectric power of amorphous Sb2Te3 thin films and amorphous-crystalline transition. J Mater Sci 22, 3522–3528 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01161452

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