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| Journal Article | PUBDB-2021-02561 |
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2021
American Chemical Society
Washington, DC
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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1021/jacs.1c03765 doi:10.3204/PUBDB-2021-02561
Abstract: Ge and Sn are unreactive at ambient conditions. Their significant promise for optoelectronic applications is thus largely confined to thin film investigations. We sought to remove barriers to reactivity here by accessing a unique pressure, 10 GPa, where the two elements can adopt the same crystal structure (tetragonal, $I4_1$/$amd$) and exhibit compatible atomic radii. The route to GeSn solid solution, however, even under these directed conditions, is different. Reaction upon heating at 10 GPa occurs between unlike crystal structures (Ge, $Fd3m$ and Sn, $I$4/$mmm$), which also have highly incompatible atomic radii. They should not react, but they do. A reconstructive transformation of $I$4/$mmm$ into the $I$4$_1$/$amd$ solid solution then follows. The new tetragonal GeSn solid solution ($I$4$_1$/$amda$ = 5.280(1) Å, c = 2.915(1) Å, Z = 4 at 9.9 GPa and 298 K) also constitutes the structural and electronic bridge between 4-fold and newly prepared 8-fold coordinated alloy cubic symmetries. Furthermore, using this high-pressure route, bulk cubic diamond-structured GeSn alloys can now be obtained at ambient pressure. The findings here remove confining conventional criteria on routes to synthesis. This opens innovative avenues to advanced materials development.
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