SEMICONDUCTORS, vol.55, no.6, pp.574-577, 2021 (SCI-Expanded)
The effect of the thermal switching of a layered GeS:Nd single crystal is investigated in a wide range of temperatures (T = 80-350 K). The effect of gamma irradiation on the thermal switching of a GeS:Nd single crystal is studied at different doses (30 and 100 krad). It is found that no thermal-switching effect is observed in the GeS:Nd crystal after gamma irradiation at low doses with the formation of an ordered structure. When the gamma irradiation increases to 100 krad, structure degradation is observed, as a result of which the crystal loses its photosensitivity, and no thermal-switching effect is detected.