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Vu TV, Khyzhun O, Myronchuk GL, Denysyuk M, Piskach L, Selezen AO, Radkowska I, Fedorchuk AO, Petrovska SS, Tkach VA, Piasecki M. Insights from Experiment and Theory on Peculiarities of the Electronic Structure and Optical Properties of the Tl 2HgGeSe 4 Crystal. Inorg Chem 2023; 62:16691-16709. [PMID: 37791920 PMCID: PMC10583210 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c01756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/05/2023]
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Tl2HgGeSe4 crystal was successfully, for the first time, synthesized by the Bridgman-Stockbarger technology, and its electronic structure and peculiarities of optical constants were investigated using both experimental and theoretical techniques. The present X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements show that the Tl2HgGeSe4 crystal reveals small moisture sensitivity at ambient conditions and that the essential covalent constituent of the chemical bonding characterizes it. The latter suggestion was supported theoretically by ab initio calculations. The present experiments feature that the Tl2HgGeSe4 crystal is a high-resistance semiconductor with a specific electrical conductivity of σ ∼ 10-8 Ω-1 cm-1 (at 300 K). The crystal is characterized by p-type electroconductivity with an indirect energy band gap of 1.28 eV at room temperature. It was established that a good agreement with the experiments could be obtained when performing first-principles calculations using the modified Becke-Johnson functional as refined by Tran-Blaha with additional involvement in the calculating procedure of the Hubbard amendment parameter U and the impact of spin-orbit coupling (TB-mBJ + U + SO model). Under such a theoretical model, we have determined that the energy band gap of the Tl2HgGeSe4 crystal is equal to 1.114 eV, and this band gap is indirect in nature. The optical constants of Tl2HgGeSe4 are calculated based on the TB-mBJ + U + SO model.
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Affiliation(s)
- Tuan V. Vu
- Laboratory
for Computational Physics, Institute for Computational Science and
Artificial Intelligence, Van Lang University, 70000 Ho Chi Minh
City, Vietnam
- Faculty
of Mechanical—Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of
Technology, Van Lang University, 70000 Ho Chi Minh
City, Vietnam
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- Frantsevych
Institute for Problems of Materials Science, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 3 Krzhyzhanovsky Street, 03142 Kyiv, Ukraine
- Department
of Experimental Physics and Information-Measuring Technology, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, 13 Voli Avenue, 43025 Lutsk, Ukraine
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- Department
of Experimental Physics and Information-Measuring Technology, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, 13 Voli Avenue, 43025 Lutsk, Ukraine
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- Department
of Experimental Physics and Information-Measuring Technology, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, 13 Voli Avenue, 43025 Lutsk, Ukraine
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- Department
of Chemistry and Technology, Lesya Ukrainka
Volyn National University, 13 Voli Avenue, 43025 Lutsk, Ukraine
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- Department
of Chemistry and Technology, Lesya Ukrainka
Volyn National University, 13 Voli Avenue, 43025 Lutsk, Ukraine
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- Jan Dlugosz
University in Częstochowa, Armii Krajowej 13/15, PL-42-217 Częstochowa, Poland
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- Department
of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, Lviv
National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies, 50 Pekarska Street, 79010 Lviv, Ukraine
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- Frantsevych
Institute for Problems of Materials Science, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 3 Krzhyzhanovsky Street, 03142 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Frantsevych
Institute for Problems of Materials Science, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 3 Krzhyzhanovsky Street, 03142 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Jan Dlugosz
University in Częstochowa, Armii Krajowej 13/15, PL-42-217 Częstochowa, Poland
- Inorganic
Chemistry Department, Uzhhorod National
University, 46 Pidhirna, UA-88000 Uzhhorod, Ukraine
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Reshak A. Photophysical, transport and structure properties of Tl10Hg3Cl16 single crystals: Novel photocatalytic water-splitting solar-to-hydrogen energy conversion. J Catal 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2017.04.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Rudysh MY, Brik MG, Khyzhun OY, Fedorchuk AO, Kityk IV, Shchepanskyi PA, Stadnyk VY, Lakshminarayana G, Brezvin RS, Bak Z, Piasecki M. Ionicity and birefringence of α-LiNH4SO4crystals: ab initio DFT study, X-ray spectroscopy measurements. RSC Adv 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra27386f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The structural, electronic properties and ionicity of the α-LiNH4SO4dielectric crystals are examined using a complex approach: experimental studies of X-ray spectroscopy and the first principles band structure techniques within a framework of DFT.
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