Ni–Te system

46 accepted literature values from 1 paper(s) (experimental 18, model 22, DFT 4, unspecified 2); 1 calculated phase diagram(s). 1 further extracted value(s) not accepted by the reader-agreement checks are only in the JSON/CSV.

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Accepted values by evidence class
Evidence class	Values
experimental	18
model	22
DFT	4
unspecified	2

Accepted values by property group
Property group	Values
invariant reaction	16
phase transition	6
crystal structure	24

Calculated phase diagrams

Binary phase diagrams calculated with pycalphad 0.11.2 from the SGTE binary collection (Hallstedt 2025, CC BY 4.0). Evidence class: model.

Assessments with a calculated phase diagram
TDB file	Assessment	SHA-256	Links
NiTe-19Arv.tdb	C.-M. Arvhult, C. Gueneau, S. Gosse, M. Selleby, J. Mater. Sci., 54, 11304-19(2019). doi:10.1007/s10853-019-03689-0	`be93db315c060716686a7bea40bb7079f903f20fe302df2287092b34409b5557`	viewer · TDB · JSON

Calculated three-phase invariants (model, mole fraction of the second component)
TDB file	T (K)	Phases at the invariant
NiTe-19Arv.tdb	1270.99	FCC_A1 (x(Te) 7.000e-5) + ION (x(Te) 0.32772) + NITE_BETA_HT (x(Te) 0.37103)
NiTe-19Arv.tdb	1153.34	NITE_BETA_HT (x(Te) 0.43367) + NI20TE17 (x(Te) 0.45946) + ION (x(Te) 0.48871)
NiTe-19Arv.tdb	1147.92	NI20TE17 (x(Te) 0.45946) + ION (x(Te) 0.495) + NITE_C6 (x(Te) 0.52862)
NiTe-19Arv.tdb	1052.8	NITE_C38 (x(Te) 0.41149) + NITE_BETA_HT (x(Te) 0.41815) + NI20TE17 (x(Te) 0.45946)
NiTe-19Arv.tdb	1012.02	NITE_C38 (x(Te) 0.41198) + NI52TE40 (x(Te) 0.43478) + NI20TE17 (x(Te) 0.45946)
NiTe-19Arv.tdb	1004.57	FCC_A1 (x(Te) 1.000e-5) + NITE_BETA_HT (x(Te) 0.37443) + NITE_C38 (x(Te) 0.39446)
NiTe-19Arv.tdb	962.18	NI52TE40 (x(Te) 0.43478) + NI20TE17 (x(Te) 0.45946) + NITE_C6 (x(Te) 0.5203)
NiTe-19Arv.tdb	720.93	NITE_C6 (x(Te) 0.66711) + ION (x(Te) 0.99316) + HEXAGONAL_A8 (x(Te) 1)

Convex hulls: Materials Project DFT hull · OQMD DFT hull

Invariant reactions (literature)

Invariant reactions reported in the literature for the Ni–Te system (16)
T (K)	Reaction / phases	Compositions (mole fraction)	Class	Source	Location
1277.7	eutectic: Liq -> FCC + β1	β1: Te 0.5	model	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Lee 1990	Table 7, p. 13, row 4 report
1271	eutectic: Liq -> FCC + β1	L: Te 0.3277; FCC: Te 7.000e-5; β1: Te 0.371	model	[1] Arvhult 2019	Table 7, p. 13, row 3 report
1153.4	peritectic: β1 + Liq -> γ2	β1: Te 0.4337; L: Te 0.4887; γ2: Te 0.4595	model	[1] Arvhult 2019	Table 7, p. 13, row 9 report
1153.2	peritectic: β1 + Liq -> γ2	β1: Te 0.5; γ2: Te 0.459459	model	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Lee 1990	Table 7, p. 13, row 10 report
1147.9	eutectic: Liq -> γ2 + δ	L: Te 0.495; γ2: Te 0.4595; δ: Te 0.5286	model	[1] Arvhult 2019	Table 7, p. 13, row 15 report
1146.2	eutectic: Liq -> γ2 + δ	γ2: Te 0.459459; δ: Te 0.5	model	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Lee 1990	Table 7, p. 13, row 16 report
1052.8	eutectoid: β1 -> β2 + γ2	β1: Te 0.4182; β2: Te 0.4115; γ2: Te 0.4595	model	[1] Arvhult 2019	Table 7, p. 13, row 11 report
1048.2	eutectoid: β1 -> β2 + γ2	β1: Te 0.5; β2: Te 0.5; γ2: Te 0.459459	model	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Lee 1990	Table 7, p. 13, row 12 report
1015.7	peritectoid: β2 + γ2 -> γ1	β2: Te 0.5; γ2: Te 0.459459; γ1: Te 0.434783	model	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Lee 1990	Table 7, p. 13, row 14 report
1012	peritectoid: β2 + γ2 -> γ1	β2: Te 0.412; γ2: Te 0.4595; γ1: Te 0.4348	model	[1] Arvhult 2019	Table 7, p. 13, row 13 report
1004.7	eutectoid: β1 -> FCC + β2	β1: Te 0.5; β2: Te 0.5	model	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Lee 1990	Table 7, p. 13, row 8 report
1004.6	eutectoid: β1 -> FCC + β2	β1: Te 0.3744; FCC: Te 1.000e-5; β2: Te 0.3945	model	[1] Arvhult 2019	Table 7, p. 13, row 7 report
963.2	eutectoid: γ2 -> γ1 + δ	γ2: Te 0.459459; γ1: Te 0.434783; δ: Te 0.5	model	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Lee 1990	Table 7, p. 13, row 18 report
962.2	eutectoid: γ2 -> γ1 + δ	γ2: Te 0.4595; γ1: Te 0.4348; δ: Te 0.5203	model	[1] Arvhult 2019	Table 7, p. 13, row 17 report
721.7	eutectic: Liq -> δ + Te – A8	δ: Te 0.5; Te – A8: Te 1	model	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Lee 1990	Table 7, p. 13, row 22 report
720.9	eutectic: Liq -> δ + Te – A8	L: Te 0.9932; δ: Te 0.6671; Te – A8: Te 1	model	[1] Arvhult 2019	Table 7, p. 13, row 21 report

Other properties

Phase transition (6)

Phase transition, Ni–Te system
Property	Value	T (K)	Phases / composition	Class	Source	Location
Phase transition	1057.8 K	1057.8	congruent transformation: β1 -> β2 β1: Te 0.4077; β2: Te 0.4077	model	[1] Arvhult 2019	Table 7, p. 13, row 5 report
Phase transition	1063.2 K	1063.2	congruent transformation: β1 -> β2 β1: Te 0.5; β2: Te 0.5	model	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Lee 1990	Table 7, p. 13, row 6 report
Phase transition	1172.8 K	1172.8	congruent melting: Liq -> δ L: Te 0.5687; δ: Te 0.5687	model	[1] Arvhult 2019	Table 7, p. 13, row 19 report
Phase transition	1173.7 K	1173.7	congruent melting: Liq -> δ L: Te 0.5; δ: Te 0.5	model	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Lee 1990	Table 7, p. 13, row 20 report
Phase transition	1294.7 K	1294.7	congruent melting: Liq -> β1 L: Te 0.5; β1: Te 0.5	model	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Lee 1990	Table 7, p. 13, row 2 report
Phase transition	1295.17 K	1295.17	congruent melting: Liq -> β1 L: Te 0.3814; β1: Te 0.3814	model	[1] Arvhult 2019	Table 7, p. 13, row 1 report

Crystal structure (24)

Crystal structure, Ni–Te system
Property	Value	T (K)	Phases / composition	Class	Source	Location
Lattice a	3.78 Å		β2	experimental	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Gulay 2004	Table 5, p. 7, row 3 report
Lattice a	3.99 Å		β2 (ht)	unspecified	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Kok 1965 doi	Table 1, p. 3, row 4 report
Lattice a	3.88 Å	0	β2-Ni2Te alloy: Te 0.333333	DFT	[1] Arvhult 2019	Table 5, p. 7, row 1 report
Lattice a	3.75 Å	0	β2-NiTe alloy: Te 0.5	DFT	[1] Arvhult 2019	Table 5, p. 7, row 2 report
Lattice a	5.71 Å	298.15	β1	experimental	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Stevels 1969	Table 1, p. 3, row 2 report
Lattice a	11.44 Å	298.15	β1′	experimental	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Stevels 1969	Table 1, p. 3, row 3 report
Lattice a	7.54 Å	298.15	β2 (hn)	experimental	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Gulay 2004	Table 1, p. 3, row 5 report
Lattice a	7.54 Å	298.15	β2 (ln)	experimental	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Gulay 2004	Table 1, p. 3, row 6 report
Lattice a	12.38 Å	298.15	γ1	experimental	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Gulay 2007 doi	Table 1, p. 3, row 9 report
Lattice a	3.86 Å	298.15	δ	experimental	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Noren 2001 doi	Table 1, p. 3, row 8 report
Lattice a	3.97 Å	298.15	δ	experimental	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Noren 2001 doi	Table 1, p. 3, row 7 report
Lattice b	3.79 Å	298.15	β2 (hn)	experimental	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Gulay 2004	Table 1, p. 3, row 5 report
Lattice b	3.79 Å	298.15	β2 (ln)	experimental	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Gulay 2004	Table 1, p. 3, row 6 report
Lattice b	3.92 Å	298.15	γ1	experimental	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Gulay 2007 doi	Table 1, p. 3, row 9 report
Lattice c	6.06 Å		β2	experimental	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Gulay 2004	Table 5, p. 7, row 3 report
Lattice c	6.09 Å		β2 (ht)	unspecified	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Kok 1965 doi	Table 1, p. 3, row 4 report
Lattice c	6.02 Å	0	β2-Ni2Te alloy: Te 0.333333	DFT	[1] Arvhult 2019	Table 5, p. 7, row 1 report
Lattice c	6.03 Å	0	β2-NiTe alloy: Te 0.5	DFT	[1] Arvhult 2019	Table 5, p. 7, row 2 report
Lattice c	6.09 Å	298.15	β2 (hn)	experimental	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Gulay 2004	Table 1, p. 3, row 5 report
Lattice c	6.06 Å	298.15	β2 (ln)	experimental	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Gulay 2004	Table 1, p. 3, row 6 report
Lattice c	6.88 Å	298.15	γ1	experimental	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Gulay 2007 doi	Table 1, p. 3, row 9 report
Lattice c	5.26 Å	298.15	δ	experimental	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Noren 2001 doi	Table 1, p. 3, row 8 report
Lattice c	5.36 Å	298.15	δ	experimental	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Noren 2001 doi	Table 1, p. 3, row 7 report
lattice beta	91.16 °	298.15	β2 (hn)	experimental	[1] Arvhult 2019 cites Gulay 2004	Table 1, p. 3, row 5 report

Sources

Reporting papers the values were read from (a value cited from another work names that work in its row).

Carl-Magnus Arvhult, Christine Guéneau, Stéphane Gossé, Malin Selleby, Thermodynamic assessment of the Ni–Te system, J Mater Sci 54, 11304-11319 (2019). doi:10.1007/s10853-019-03689-0

Please cite

R. Arróyave, J. Saal, D. Shin, ORCHID-Values: thermodynamic and phase-equilibrium values read from the literature (version 2026.10; Version 1, machine-extracted), Zenodo (2026). doi:10.5281/zenodo.23735569
R. Arróyave, J. Saal, D. Shin, ORCHID-Diagrams: calculated binary phase diagrams (version 2026.10), Zenodo (2026). doi:10.5281/zenodo.23735859
R. Arróyave, J. Saal, D. Shin, ORCHID-Hulls: binary convex hulls (Materials Project, OQMD, assessed CALPHAD) (version 2026.10), Zenodo (2026). doi:10.5281/zenodo.23735891
R. Arróyave, J. Saal, D. Shin, ORCHID data: umbrella record of the ORCHID datasets (version 2026.10; Version 1, machine-extracted), Zenodo (2026). doi:10.5281/zenodo.23736065

Also cite the original source of every value you use (paper_citation / paper_doi, and cited_dois for values the paper cites from earlier work); B. Hallstedt, The SGTE collection of binary datasets, Calphad 89 (2025) 102833, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.calphad.2025.102833 (CC BY 4.0), and the original assessment named in each file; A. Jain et al., The Materials Project: A materials genome approach to accelerating materials innovation, APL Materials 1 (2013) 011002, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4812323 (CC BY 4.0); J. E. Saal et al., JOM 65 (2013) 1501, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-013-0755-4 and S. Kirklin et al., npj Comput. Mater. 1 (2015) 15010, https://doi.org/10.1038/npjcompumats.2015.10 (CC BY 4.0). Version 1, machine-extracted: values were read by language-model readers constrained to quote their source and checked automatically, and the release was then audited on the printed pages by adversarial audits, an independent second review of fit-facing records and a preliminary human review of a frozen sample. Flags such as accepted and ESPEI-ready record screening results, not certification; known issues are listed in the release notes.

@misc{orchid_literature_2026,
  author    = {Arr{\'o}yave, Raymundo and Saal, James and Shin, Dongwon},
  title     = {{ORCHID-Values: thermodynamic and phase-equilibrium values read from the literature}},
  version   = {2026.10},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  year      = {2026},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.23735569},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23735569},
  note      = {Version 1, machine-extracted}
}

@misc{orchid_phase_diagrams_2026,
  author    = {Arr{\'o}yave, Raymundo and Saal, James and Shin, Dongwon},
  title     = {{ORCHID-Diagrams: calculated binary phase diagrams}},
  version   = {2026.10},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  year      = {2026},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.23735859},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23735859}
}

@misc{orchid_hulls_2026,
  author    = {Arr{\'o}yave, Raymundo and Saal, James and Shin, Dongwon},
  title     = {{ORCHID-Hulls: binary convex hulls (Materials Project, OQMD, assessed CALPHAD)}},
  version   = {2026.10},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  year      = {2026},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.23735891},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23735891}
}

@misc{orchid_data_2026,
  author    = {Arr{\'o}yave, Raymundo and Saal, James and Shin, Dongwon},
  title     = {{ORCHID data: umbrella record of the ORCHID datasets}},
  version   = {2026.10},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  year      = {2026},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.23736065},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23736065},
  note      = {Version 1, machine-extracted}
}