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The effect of amorphization on the symmetry of the local environment of chalcogen atoms in As2S3, As2Se3, and As2Te3 compounds has been investigated by 129Te(129I) Mössbauer spectroscopy. Three states of triply coordinated tellurium atoms are indistinguishable in the Mössbauer spectra of crystalline As2Te3. Amorphization of As2Te3 decreases the local symmetry of triply coordinated states of Te atoms and leads to the formation of doubly coordinated states in -As-Te-Te-As- chains. In the structure of crystalline As2S3 and As2Se3, two states of doubly coordinated chalcogen atoms X in -As-X-As- chains manifest themselves in the broadening of the Mössbauer spectra. Amorphization of As2S3 and As2Se3 is not accompanied by a change in the local symmetry of doubly coordinated chalcogen atoms in -As-X-As- chains; however, doubly coordinated states of S and Se atoms in -As-X-X-As chains are formed in the amorphous material.
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Original Russian Text © G.A. Bordovsky, A.V. Marchenko, P.P. Seregin, E.I. Terukov, 2009, published in Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 2009, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 7–10.
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Bordovsky, G.A., Marchenko, A.V., Seregin, P.P. et al. The effect of amorphization on the local structure of arsenic chalcogenides. Semiconductors 43, 4–6 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782609010023
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