“…Due to the peculiarities of the crystal lattice, it has many ternary analogs of the types Tl 9 AX 6 and Tl 4 BX 3 (A -Sb, Bi, In, Au, rare-earth elements; B -Sn, Pb, Mo, Cu, rare-earth elements; X -Se, Te ) [15,[17][18][19][20][21][22][23], also possessing several functional properties, namely optical [24,25], thermoelectric [26][27][28][29], magnetic [30,31], as well as topological insulators properties [32,33]. In recent years, to improve thermoelectric performance, intensive work has been carried out to study solid solutions and doped phases based on these compounds [34][35][36][37] To obtain new variable composition phases with Tl 5 Te 3 -structure, we studied phase relations in a some systems consisting of Tl 5 Te 3 and its ternary analogs [38][39][40], in which continuous substitutional solid solutions were found. The constructed phase diagrams serve as the basis for choosing the composition of melts for growing single crystals of solid solutions of a given composition by the method of directional crystallization.…”