Getmanskii IV, Zaitsev SA, Koval VV, Minyaev RM, Minkin VI. Computationally Designed Crystal Structures of the Supertetrahedral Ga
4C and Ga
4Si Solids.
J Phys Chem A 2021;
125:6556-6561. [PMID:
34291645 DOI:
10.1021/acs.jpca.1c02687]
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Abstract
The structural, mechanical, electrical, and optical properties of new supertetrahedral structures cF-Ga4X (X = C, Si) were studied by using a solid state DFT calculation. The crystal structures of cF-Ga4X are built based on a diamond crystal lattice, in which pairs of adjacent carbon atoms are replaced by Ga4X fragments, where Ga4 is a tetrahedron of gallium atoms. Calculations have shown that new mixed-type supertetrahedral structures are dynamically stable, have densities of 3.49 g/cm3 (X = C) and 2.65 g/cm3 (X = Si), and are narrow band gap semiconductors. From the performed molecular dynamics calculations, it follows that the homogeneous melting temperature of the gallium-carbon structure is in the range from 600 to 700 K and that of the gallium-silicon structure is in the range from 400 to 500 K.
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