Rahim S. Madatov; Arzu I. Najafov; Shamsaddin A. Allahverdiyev, Kamala H. Khalilova
Abstract
The specific electrical conductivity in TlInTe2 and TlInTe2-Te (4at.%) crystals were investigated in the range of 100-300 K and 10-102 V/cm in the parallel and perpendicular directions of the chain plane. It was determined that the presence of more than stoichiometry of Te-atom in the octahedral cavities between thallium atoms enhances the ion-covalent bond under the cation lattice and reduces the conductivity in the direction of the c crystal axis in the TlInTe2 – Te system. This leads to a partial decrease in the anisotropy of the conduction at Ek < 40 V/cm values of electric field intensity, and the sharp increase at high field intensities. The activation energies of energy levels in parallel and perpendicular directions to InTe4 chains were determined from σ~f(T) dependencies as 0,12; 0,35 eV and 0,10 eV; 0,32 eV, respectively.