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Structure reinvestigation of α-, β- and γ-In(2)S(3)
Semiconducting indium sulfide (In(2)S(3)) has recently attracted considerable attention as a buffer material in the field of thin film photovoltaics. Compared with this growing interest, however, detailed characterizations of the crystal structure of this material are rather scarce and controversial...
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International Union of Crystallography
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4886618/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27240773 http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S2052520616007058 |
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author | Pistor, Paul Merino Álvarez, Jose M. León, Máximo di Michiel, Marco Schorr, Susan Klenk, Reiner Lehmann, Sebastian |
author_facet | Pistor, Paul Merino Álvarez, Jose M. León, Máximo di Michiel, Marco Schorr, Susan Klenk, Reiner Lehmann, Sebastian |
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description | Semiconducting indium sulfide (In(2)S(3)) has recently attracted considerable attention as a buffer material in the field of thin film photovoltaics. Compared with this growing interest, however, detailed characterizations of the crystal structure of this material are rather scarce and controversial. In order to close this gap, we have carried out a reinvestigation of the crystal structure of this material with an in situ X-ray diffraction study as a function of temperature using monochromatic synchrotron radiation. For the purpose of this study, high quality polycrystalline In(2)S(3) material with nominally stoichiometric composition was synthesized at high temperatures. We found three modifications of In(2)S(3) in the temperature range between 300 and 1300 K, with structural phase transitions at temperatures of 717 K and above 1049 K. By Rietveld refinement we extracted the crystal structure data and the temperature coefficients of the lattice constants for all three phases, including a high-temperature trigonal γ-In(2)S(3) modification. |
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spelling | pubmed-48866182016-06-08 Structure reinvestigation of α-, β- and γ-In(2)S(3) Pistor, Paul Merino Álvarez, Jose M. León, Máximo di Michiel, Marco Schorr, Susan Klenk, Reiner Lehmann, Sebastian Acta Crystallogr B Struct Sci Cryst Eng Mater Research Papers Semiconducting indium sulfide (In(2)S(3)) has recently attracted considerable attention as a buffer material in the field of thin film photovoltaics. Compared with this growing interest, however, detailed characterizations of the crystal structure of this material are rather scarce and controversial. In order to close this gap, we have carried out a reinvestigation of the crystal structure of this material with an in situ X-ray diffraction study as a function of temperature using monochromatic synchrotron radiation. For the purpose of this study, high quality polycrystalline In(2)S(3) material with nominally stoichiometric composition was synthesized at high temperatures. We found three modifications of In(2)S(3) in the temperature range between 300 and 1300 K, with structural phase transitions at temperatures of 717 K and above 1049 K. By Rietveld refinement we extracted the crystal structure data and the temperature coefficients of the lattice constants for all three phases, including a high-temperature trigonal γ-In(2)S(3) modification. International Union of Crystallography 2016-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4886618/ /pubmed/27240773 http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S2052520616007058 Text en © Paul Pistor et al. 2016 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Papers Pistor, Paul Merino Álvarez, Jose M. León, Máximo di Michiel, Marco Schorr, Susan Klenk, Reiner Lehmann, Sebastian Structure reinvestigation of α-, β- and γ-In(2)S(3) |
title | Structure reinvestigation of α-, β- and γ-In(2)S(3)
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title_full | Structure reinvestigation of α-, β- and γ-In(2)S(3)
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title_fullStr | Structure reinvestigation of α-, β- and γ-In(2)S(3)
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title_full_unstemmed | Structure reinvestigation of α-, β- and γ-In(2)S(3)
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title_short | Structure reinvestigation of α-, β- and γ-In(2)S(3)
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title_sort | structure reinvestigation of α-, β- and γ-in(2)s(3) |
topic | Research Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4886618/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27240773 http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S2052520616007058 |
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