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The use of the method of zone recrystallization under a coating for preparing single-crystal films of bismuth-antimony solid solution

V. M. Grabov, V. A. Komarov, N. S. Kablukova, E. V. Demidov, A. N. Krushelnitckii

Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, St. Petersburg

Abstract: The structure, composition homogeneity, and electrical properties of bismuth-antimony films with an antimony content below 15 at% prepared by the method of zone recrystallization under a coating on mica and polyimide substrates have been experimentally analyzed; the results are compared with data on block films of a corresponding composition. It is established that the method used makes it possible to prepare single-crystal (single-block) films of BiSb solid solution on substrates with different structures. The films obtained exhibit no inhomogeneities in the antimony distribution over a film volume. Single-crystal films have a much higher relative magnetoresistance than do block films of the same composition prepared by thermal depositions.

Received: 28.05.2014

 English version: Technical Physics Letters, 2015, 41:1, 10–13

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