Fabrication of Ternary Chalcogenide Glassy Alloys and its Calorimetric Studies

Abstract

A ternary chalcogenide semi-conducting materials Selenium-Tellurium-Gallium has been fabricated in which a systematic investigation has been conducted to study the effect of Gallium in Selenium-Tellurium binary components. The system Se_70-xTe₃₀Ga_x ( ) has been studied in detail with emphasis on bulk glasses of Se-Te-Ga systems and thin films are prepared by the conventional melt quenching technique and by thermal evaporation technique, respectively. X-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimetric methods have been used to characterize the materials.