Synthesis and Crystal Structure of a New Quaternary Thioantimonate, Na9Gd5Sb8S26
β Scribed by Sunju Park; Sung-Jin Kim
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 332 KB
- Volume
- 161
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4596
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β¦ Synopsis
The 5rst Na-containing quaternary rare-earth thioantimonate, Na 9 Gd 5 Sb 8 S 26 , was synthesized from the reaction of Gd metal, Sb, and S in Na 2 S 6ux at 7503C. Black plate-shaped crystals were obtained and their crystal structure was determined by the single-crystal X-ray di4raction method. This compound crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group Pnma (No. 62) with a unit cell of a β«Ψβ¬ 11.406(3) A s , b β«Ψβ¬ 23.765(2) A s , c β«Ψβ¬ 16.923(5) A s , and Z β«Ψβ¬ 4. Na 9 Gd 5 Sb 8 S 26 has a complex three-dimensional structure that consists of SbS 3 , SbS 4 , GdS 6 , and GdS 7 units. In the structure, three crystallographically di4erent Gd atoms form a staircase-shaped building block, where two Gd atoms share disul5de ions, S 2Ψ 2 . The formula of the compound can be described as (Na Ψ ) 9 (Gd 3Ψ ) 5 (Sb 3Ψ ) 8 (S 2Ψ ) 22 (S 2Ψ
2 ) 2 . Measurement of the optically di4use re6ectance indicates that Na 9 Gd 5 Sb 8 S 26 is a semiconductor with a band gap of 1.63 eV.
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