Mn. Abdusalyamova et al., SYNTHESIS, GROWTH AND INVESTIGATION OF THE PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF SINGLE-CRYSTALS OF TMSB, TMTE AND THEIR SOLID-SOLUTIONS TMSB1-XTEX, Journal of alloys and compounds, 205(1-2), 1994, pp. 107-109
A complete series of TmSb1-xTex single crystals has been prepared in o
rder to enable a systematic investigation of the valence change of Tm
between nearly +3 for semimetallic TmSb and +2 for semiconducting TmTe
. A discontinuous semiconductor-metal transition is observed at x=0.8-
0.9.