
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hamann, SD 
T1  - The electrical resistivities of some semiconductors at high pressures
JF  - Australian Journal of Chemistry
JO  - Aust. J. Chem.
Y1  - 1958
VL  - 11
IS  - 4
SP  - 391
EP  - 398
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9580391 
N2  - The resistivities of B, I, TiS2, TiS3, TiSe2, ZrS2, ZrS3, ZrSe2, ZrSe3, and ZrTe2 have been measured at room temperature under static pressures between 1 and 40,000 atm. In every instance the resistivity decreased with increasing pressure, but the change was never great enough to render the materials metallic. The largest change was shown by iodine, whose resistivity dropped by a factor of 1000 at 40,000 atm.     Under explosive shock pressures of about 250,000 atm, sulphur and iodine were found to have very low resistances and were presumably metallic. In similar conditions ZrS3 and anthracene remained semiconductors. 
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