TY - JOUR
T1 - ALn1±xBi4±xS 8(A=K,Rb;Ln=La,Ce,Pr,Nd)
T2 - New Semiconducting Quaternary Bismuth Sulfides
AU - Iordanidis, Lykourgos
AU - Schindler, Jon L.
AU - Kannewurf, Carl R.
AU - Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.
N1 - Funding Information:
Financial support from the Office of Naval Research (Contract N00014-98-1-0443) is gratefully acknowledged. This work made use of the SEM facilities of the Center for Electron Optics at Michigan State University. The Siemens SMART platform CCD diffractometer at Michigan State University was purchased with funds from the National Science Foundation (CHE-9634638). At Northwestern University this work made use of Central Facilities supported by NSF through the Materials Research Center (DMR-96-32472). The authors thank Victor G. Young and the X-Ray Crystallographic Laboratory of the University of Minnesota for collecting the X-ray data set of (III).
PY - 1999/3
Y1 - 1999/3
N2 - The isostructural compounds KLa1.28Bi3.72S8(I), RbLa1±xBi4±xS8(II), RbCe0.84Bi4.16S8(III), KCe1±xBi4±xS8(IV), KPr1±xB4±xS8(V) and KNd1±xBi4±xS8(VI) were synthesized. The structures of compounds (I) and (III) were determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction. They crystallize in the orthorhombicPnmaspace group (#62),a=16.6524(9) Å ,b=4.0712(2) Å,c=21.589(1) Å,R1=0.0397, wR2=0.0743 (all data) for (I) anda=16.7469(2) Å ,b=4.0528(1) Å,c=21.753(1) Å,R1=0.0345, wR2=0.0613 (all data) for (III). The structure type found in these compounds is made up of NaCl-type and Gd2S3-type fragments which connect to form tunnels filled with alkali metal ions. The structure has three types of metal positions, a six-coordinate type and two with higher coordination numbers, seven and eight. The NaCl-type fragment contains the six-coordinate positions which are exclusively occupied by Bi atoms, while the Gd2S3-type fragment contains the seven- and eight-coordinate positions which display mixed bismuth/lanthanide atom occupancy. The compounds are semiconductors with band gaps around 1.0 eV and they melt incongruently between 770 and 800°C. The electrical conductivities of the La analogs and magnetic properties of the Ce analogs are reported.
AB - The isostructural compounds KLa1.28Bi3.72S8(I), RbLa1±xBi4±xS8(II), RbCe0.84Bi4.16S8(III), KCe1±xBi4±xS8(IV), KPr1±xB4±xS8(V) and KNd1±xBi4±xS8(VI) were synthesized. The structures of compounds (I) and (III) were determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction. They crystallize in the orthorhombicPnmaspace group (#62),a=16.6524(9) Å ,b=4.0712(2) Å,c=21.589(1) Å,R1=0.0397, wR2=0.0743 (all data) for (I) anda=16.7469(2) Å ,b=4.0528(1) Å,c=21.753(1) Å,R1=0.0345, wR2=0.0613 (all data) for (III). The structure type found in these compounds is made up of NaCl-type and Gd2S3-type fragments which connect to form tunnels filled with alkali metal ions. The structure has three types of metal positions, a six-coordinate type and two with higher coordination numbers, seven and eight. The NaCl-type fragment contains the six-coordinate positions which are exclusively occupied by Bi atoms, while the Gd2S3-type fragment contains the seven- and eight-coordinate positions which display mixed bismuth/lanthanide atom occupancy. The compounds are semiconductors with band gaps around 1.0 eV and they melt incongruently between 770 and 800°C. The electrical conductivities of the La analogs and magnetic properties of the Ce analogs are reported.
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U2 - 10.1006/jssc.1998.8049
DO - 10.1006/jssc.1998.8049
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0001014401
VL - 143
SP - 151
EP - 162
JO - Journal of Solid State Chemistry
JF - Journal of Solid State Chemistry
SN - 0022-4596
IS - 2
ER -