DEGRADATION OF THE THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF 
n-PbTe FILMS IN ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN

I. M. Kokanbaev

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It has been shown that the behavior of the thermoelectric 
properties of n-PbTe films produced at different condensation 
temperatures Tc depends on the time of storage in air, 
which is related to the physical processes responsible for the diffusion 
of oxygen along the crystallite boundary and on its state prescribed 
by condensation conditions.

Mukimi Kokand State Pedagogical Institute, Kokand, Republic 
of Uzbekistan; email: dpi_tso@quqon.uz. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 76, No. 2, pp. 168-169, March-April, 2003. Original 
article submitted April 17, 2002; revision submitted June 18, 2002.