Inorganic Chemistry
Inorganic Chemistry
5 years ago

Low-Dimensional Nitridosilicates Grown from Ca/Li Flux: Void Metal Ca8In2SiN4 and Semiconductor Ca3SiN3H

Low-Dimensional Nitridosilicates Grown from Ca/Li Flux: Void Metal Ca8In2SiN4 and Semiconductor Ca3SiN3H
Benjamin V. G. Schwartz, Matthew J. Dickman, Susan E. Latturner
Reactions of indium and silicon with lithium nitride in Ca/Li flux produce two new low-dimensional nitridosilicates. Ca8In2SiN4 is a void metal with ionic layers containing isolated [SiN4]8− units and metallic layers featuring indium dimers surrounded by calcium. Ca3SiN3H is a indirect band gap semiconductor (Eg = 3.1 eV) with infinite chains of corner-sharing SiN4 tetrahedra and distorted edge-sharing H@Ca6 octahedra.

Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01532

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01532

You might also like
Discover & Discuss Important Research

Keeping up-to-date with research can feel impossible, with papers being published faster than you'll ever be able to read them. That's where Researcher comes in: we're simplifying discovery and making important discussions happen. With over 19,000 sources, including peer-reviewed journals, preprints, blogs, universities, podcasts and Live events across 10 research areas, you'll never miss what's important to you. It's like social media, but better. Oh, and we should mention - it's free.

  • Download from Google Play
  • Download from App Store
  • Download from AppInChina

Researcher displays publicly available abstracts and doesn’t host any full article content. If the content is open access, we will direct clicks from the abstracts to the publisher website and display the PDF copy on our platform. Clicks to view the full text will be directed to the publisher website, where only users with subscriptions or access through their institution are able to view the full article.