Various physical properties (magnetization, specific heat, optical reflectance, electrical resistivity) of CuV 2 S 4 crystals grown by chemical vapour transport using TeCl 4 as the transporting agent have been measured. The data show slight differences compared to samples grown using different techniques. These differences include the absence of a sharp drop in magnetization and the absence of a peak in the heat capacity near 90 K. These differences suggest that the cubictetragonal phase transition near 90 K does not occur in these particular crystals. The reflectance of the same crystals has been studied from (70-20 000 cm −1 ) for temperatures between 40 and 300 K and the data are consistent with those for a disordered metal. A high frequency absorption, perhaps an interband transition, has been observed in addition to absorption due to strongly scattered free carriers.
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