“…In the course of our systematic investigation on rare-earth tellurides with transition metals we reported recently on the formation of new compounds R 7 Cu 3 Te 12 (R = Y, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er and Tm) (Ho 7 Cu 3 Te 12 structure type, space group R3m) [3,4] and RCu 3 Te 3 (R = Er and Tm) (RCu 3 Te 3 structure type, space group Pmn2 1 ) [5].…”