Structure zinc blende

Crystal structure of sodium chloride. Smaller spheres represent Na+ and larger spheres Cl ions, (a) Shows locations of the ions in the FCC structure, (b) Schematic of the actual structure. 

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The predominantly ionic alkali metal sulfides M2S (Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs) adopt the antifluorite structure (p. 118) in which each S atom is surrounded by a cube of 8 M and each M by a tetrahedron of S. The alkaline earth sulfides MS (Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba) adopt the NaCl-type 6 6 structure (p. 242) as do many other monosulfides of rather less basic metals (M = Pb, Mn, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb, Ho, Th, U, Pu). However, many metals in the later transition element groups show substantial trends to increasing covalency leading either to lower coordination numbers or to layer-lattice structures. Thus MS (Be, Zn, Cd, Hg) adopt the 4 4 zinc blende structure (p. 1210) and ZnS, CdS and MnS also crystallize in the 4 4 wurtzite modification (p. 1210). In both of these structures both M and S are tetrahedrally coordinated, whereas PtS, which also has 4 4... 

HgS is polymorphic. The red a-form is the mineral cinnabar, or vermilion, which has a distorted rock-salt structure and can be prepared from the elements. )3-HgS is the rare, black, mineral metacinnabar which has the zinc-blende structure and is converted by heat to the stable a-form. In the laboratory the most familiar form is the highly insoluble black precipitate obtained by the action of HzS on aqueous solutions of Hg. HgS is an unreactive substance, being attacked only by cone HBr, HI or aqua regia. HgSe and... 

HgTe are easily obtained from the elements and have the zinc-blende structure. 

When the radius ratio of an ionic compound is less than about 0.4, corresponding to cations that are significantly smaller than the anion, the small tetrahedral holes may be occupied. An example is the zinc-blende structure (which is also called the sphalerite structure), named after a form of the mineral ZnS (Fig. 5.43). This structure is based on an expanded cubic close-packed lattice of the big S2 anions, with the small Zn2+ cations occupying half the tetrahedral holes. Each Zn2+ ion is surrounded by four S2 ions, and each S2" ion is surrounded by four Zn2+ ions so the zinc-blende structure has (4,4)-coordination. 

Ziegler-Natta catalyst A stereospecific catalyst for polymerization reactions, consisting of titanium tetrachloride and triethylaluminum. zinc-blende structure A crystal structure in which the cations occupy half the tetrahedral holes in a nearly close packed cubic lattice of anions also known as sphalerite structure. 

Silicon carbide (SiC) is a major industrial material with a considerable number of applications. CVD plays a significant role in its development and production, SiC is a covalent carbide with two phases a and [3. The phase of major interest here is pSiC, which has a cubic zinc blend structure. It is the one reported here. 

Fig. 4.4 Atomistic representation of successive steps in the ECALE synthesis of CdTe on an Au substrate. Observe the deposition and stripping of Te for assembling the correct atomic planes of the zinc blende structure. (Adapted from [27])...

Further examples where these rules are observed are as follows. Under pressure, some compounds with zinc blende structure, such as AlSb and GaSb, transform to modifications that correspond to the J3-Sn structure. Others, such as InAs, CdS, and CdSe, adopt the NaCl structure when compressed, and their atoms thus also attain coordination number 6. Graphite (c.n. 3, C-C distance 141.5 pm, density 2.26 gem-3) pr Te diamond (c.n. 4, C-C 154 pm, 3.51 gem-3). 

Whereas AgCl has the NaCl structure, Agl has the zinc blende structure. Could you imagine conditions under which both compounds would have the same structure ... 

Furthermore, crystals whose structures are not centrosymmetric have different hardnesses on opposite sides of a given crystal even though the Miller indices of the surface planes are the same. For example, the hardness of the (0001) plane of ZnS (zinc blende structure) is not the same as that of the (000-1) plane. 

The Group IV elements also show a linear correlation of their octahedral shear moduli, C44(lll) with chemical hardness density (Eg/2Vm).This modulus is for for shear strains on the (111) planes. It is a measure of the shear stiffnesses of the covalent bonds. The (111) planes lie normal to the bonds that connect the atoms in the diamond (or zinc blende) structure. In terms of the three standard moduli for cubic symmetry (Cn, Q2, and C44), the octahedral shear modulus is given by C44(lll) = 3CV1 + [4C44/(Cn - Ci2)]. Since the (111) planes have three-fold symmetry, they have only one shear modulus. The bonds across the octahedral planes have high resistance to shear which probably results from electron correlation in the bonds (Gilman, 2002). 

The total energy of the system is one of the most important results obtained from any of the calculational techniques. To study the behavior of an impurity (in a particular charge state) in a semiconductor one needs to know the total energy of many different configurations, in which the impurity is located at different sites in the host crystal. Specific sites in the diamond or zinc-blende structure have been extensively studied because of their relatively high symmetry. Figure 1 shows their location in a three-dimensional view. In Fig. 2, some sites are indicated in a (110) plane... 

In metallic and many semiconducting crystals, the valence electrons are delocalized throughout the solid, so that antisite defects are not accompanied by prohibitive energy costs and are rather common. For example, an important defect in the semiconducting material GaAs, which has the zinc blend structure (Supplementary Material SI), is the antisite defect formed when an As atom occupies a Ga site. 

Parth6, E. (1995) Wurtzite and Zinc-Blende Structures. In Intermetallic Compounds Principles and Practice, eds. Westbrook, J.H. and Fleischer, R.L. (John Wiley Sons Ltd., Chichester), Vol. 1, pp. 343-362. 

The zinc blende structure can be described as a ccp array of sulfide ions with zinc ions occupying every other tetrahedral hole in an ordered manner. Each zinc ion is thus tetrahedrally coordinated by four sulfides and vice versa. Compounds adopting this structure include the copper halides and Zn, Cd, and Hg sulfides. Notice that if all the atoms were identical, the structure would be the same as that of a diamond (see Section 1.6.5). Notice that the atomic positions are equivalent, and we could equally well generate the structure by swapping the zinc and sulfurs. 

Below 146°C, two phases of Agl exist y-Agl, which has the zinc blende structure, and (3-Agl with the wurtzite structure. Both are based on a close-packed array of iodide ions with half of the tetrahedral holes filled. However, above 146°C a new phase, a-AgI, is observed where the iodide ions now have a body-centred cubic lattice. If you look back to Figure 5.7, you can see that a dramatic increase in conductivity is observed for this phase the conductivity of a-Agl is very high, 131 S m , a factor of 10 higher than that of (3- or y-AgI, comparable with the conductivity of the best conducting liquid electrolytes. How can we explain this startling phenomenon ... 

The zinc blende structure of y-AgI, a low-temperature polymorph of Agl, is illustrated in Figure 5.43. Discuss the similarities and differences between this structure and that of a-Agl. Why do you think the conductivity of the Ag" ions is lower in y-AgI ... 

The wurtzite structure is closely related to the zinc blende structure, having the same 4 4 tetrahedral coordination arising from a hexagonal close packing of anions in which half the tetrahedral sites are occupied by cations. Examples of AB compounds crystallizing in this structure are CuCl, CuBr, Cul, Agl, BeO, ZnO, ZnS, MnS, MnSe,... 

Zinc blende structure (Fig. 4-l%)- Zinc blende or sphalerite (ZnS) has a cubic structure in which we again have interchangeable, interpenetrating fee arrays of Zn2+ and S2. If, as in Fig. 4.12, we call the shaded ions zinc and divide the unit cell into eight subcubes, we see that the zinc ions occupy the body centers of every alternate subcube. Furthermore, the coordination number of each ion is now four, and the nuclei of the four nearest neighbors... 

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