TY - JOUR
T1 - Crystal growth, structure and some properties of PbNbS3, SnSNbS3, LaNbS3 and related misfit layer compounds
AU - Wiegers, G.A
AU - Meetsma, A
AU - Haange, R.J
AU - de Boer , J.L
PY - 1989
Y1 - 1989
N2 - ompounds with the assumed composition PbMS3, SnMS3 (M=Ti, V, Nb, Ta), known for about 20 years, were investigated by single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction. Since crystals were grown by vapour transport using Cl2, from (NH4)2PbCl6, as transport agent. The compounds may be classified as misfit layer compounds, built of alternately two-atom thick layers of SnS or PbS with distorted NaCl type structure and sandwiches MS2. This was proved by single crystal X-ray diffraction for “SnNbS3” which turned out to have the composition (SnS1.17NbS2; the NbS2 sandwiches have niobium atoms in trigonal prismatic coordination by sulfur like 2H-NbS2. Single crystals “LaNbS3” show a similar diffraction pattern which indicates a layered structure with units LaS and NbS2. The electrical transport properties of (PbS)1.14NbS2 resemble strongly those of 2H-NbS2. Crystals PbHfS3 and SnHfS3 obtained by vapour transport have the NH4CdCl3 structure
AB - ompounds with the assumed composition PbMS3, SnMS3 (M=Ti, V, Nb, Ta), known for about 20 years, were investigated by single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction. Since crystals were grown by vapour transport using Cl2, from (NH4)2PbCl6, as transport agent. The compounds may be classified as misfit layer compounds, built of alternately two-atom thick layers of SnS or PbS with distorted NaCl type structure and sandwiches MS2. This was proved by single crystal X-ray diffraction for “SnNbS3” which turned out to have the composition (SnS1.17NbS2; the NbS2 sandwiches have niobium atoms in trigonal prismatic coordination by sulfur like 2H-NbS2. Single crystals “LaNbS3” show a similar diffraction pattern which indicates a layered structure with units LaS and NbS2. The electrical transport properties of (PbS)1.14NbS2 resemble strongly those of 2H-NbS2. Crystals PbHfS3 and SnHfS3 obtained by vapour transport have the NH4CdCl3 structure
U2 - 10.1016/0167-2738(89)90220-8
DO - 10.1016/0167-2738(89)90220-8
M3 - Article
SN - 0167-2738
VL - 32-33
SP - 183
EP - 191
JO - Solid state ionics
JF - Solid state ionics
ER -