Dislocation, annealing and quenching effects on the microindentation hardness of Bi2Te3 and Bi2Te 2.9Se.1 single crystals

Materials Characterization

Volumn 52, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 253-262

  Augustine, Saji ^a   Mathai, Elizabeth ^a  

^a Department of Physics   (India)

Author keywords

Bismuth telluride; Etching; Horizontal zone melting; Microhardness; Single crystal

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; COOLING; CRYSTAL GROWTH; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; ETCHING; MICROHARDNESS; QUENCHING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); X RAY DIFFRACTION; ZONE MELTING;

BISMUTH TELLURIDE; ETCH PITS; HORIZONTAL ZONE MELTING (HZM); OPTICAL MICROGRAPHS;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 4544351555     PISSN: 10445803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchar.2003.06.001     Document Type: Article

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