The initial Bi-Se ratio has an influence on the growth habit of Bi2Se3 crystals.
Structural and physical properties of the crystals depend on their growth nature.
The different growth mechanism for the Bi2Se3-based single crystals was described.
The grown n-type crystals are weak metals with the Fermi energy of <0.5 eV.
The near-stoichiometric crystals have the figure of merit of about ∼0.12 at 300 K.