Abstract: | The anomalous composition dependence of the carrier transport properties of Ge1?y(Se0.2Te0.8)y in the range y=0.495 ? 0.510 has been analyzed at room temperature by means of a two-carrier model. The close agreement between the experimental and computational results confirms the existence of two valence bands in α-GeSexTe1?x which are produced by the rhombohedral distortion of the lattice at low temperature. |