Silver telluride

Silver telluride (Ag₂Te) is a chemical compound, a telluride of silver, also known as disilver telluride or silver(I) telluride. It forms a monoclinic crystal. In a wider sense, silver telluride can be used to denote AgTe (silver(II) telluride, a metastable compound) or Ag₅Te₃.

Silver(I) telluride occurs naturally as the mineral hessite, whereas silver(II) telluride is known as empressite.

Silver telluride is a semiconductor which can be doped both n-type and p-type. Stochoimetric Ag₂Te has n-type conductivity. On heating silver is lost from the material.

Non-stoichiometric silver telluride has shown extraordinary magnetoresistance.

[edit] References

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• Phase Transition of Ag-Enriched Ag₂Te, F. F. Aliev, Inorganic Materials, Vol. 38, (10), pp. 995-997 (2002)
• Large positive magnetoresistance in thin films of silver telluride, I. S. Chuprakov and K. H. Dahmen, Applied Physics Letters Vol. 72, (17), pp. 2165-2167 (1998) doi:10.1063/1.121309
• Fundamental Optical Absorption in β-Silver Telluride, Richard Dalven, Phys. Rev. Lett. 16, 311–312 (1966) doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.16.311

[edit] See also

• Hessite
• Empressite
• Sylvanite

[edit] Related materials

• Silver selenide
• Silver sulfide

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