NEW APPROACH TO THE DETERMINATION OF PHASE EQUILIBRIUM IN THE Zn-Te SYSTEM

Abstract

The polyassociative model of the liquid phase was applied to describe the phase equilibrium in the Zn-Te system. The thermodynamic functions describing the formation of liquid associates were obtained, taking into account the experimental data on the p-T-x equilibrium in the system. The model of polyassociative solutions with the parameters obtained in this work satisfactorily describes the p-T-x diagram of the system. The numerical results of the analysis of the phase equilibrium confirmed the possibility of applying the polyassociative model to the Zn-Te system in a wide temperature range.

Keywords

• phase equilibria
• solubility
• liquid phase epitaxy
• II-VI semiconductor compound