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Title: The Subchalcogenides Ir2In8Q (Q = S, Se, Te): Dirac Semimetal Candidates with Re-entrant Structural Modulation

Journal Article · · Journal of the American Chemical Society
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c00809· OSTI ID:1631579
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  1. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
  2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Materials Science Division; Univ. College London (United Kingdom)
  3. Donostia International Physics Center (Spain); Univ. of the Basque Country, Bilbao (Spain). Condensed Matter Physics Dept.
  4. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Materials Science Division
  5. Univ. of the Basque Country, Bilbao (Spain). Condensed Matter Physics Dept.
  6. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Dept. of Chemistry; Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Materials Science Division

Subchalcogenides are uncommon compounds where the metal atoms are in unusually low formal oxidation states. They bridge the gap between intermetallics and semiconductors and can have unexpected structures and properties because of the exotic nature of their chemical bonding as they contain both metal–metal and metal–main group (e.g., halide, chalcogenide) interactions. Finding new members of this class of materials presents synthetic challenges as attempts to make them often result in phase separation into binary compounds. We overcome this difficulty by utilizing indium as a metal flux to synthesize large (millimeter scale) single crystals of novel subchalcogenide materials. Herein, we report two new compounds Ir2In8Q (Q = Se, Te) and compare their structural and electrical properties to the previously reported Ir2In8S analogue. Ir2In8Se and Ir2In8Te crystallize in the $$P_{4_2}$$/mnm space group and are isostructural to Ir2In8S, but also have commensurately modulated (with q vectors q = 1/6a* + 1/6b* and q = 1/10a* + 1/10b* for Ir2In8Se and Ir2In8Te, respectively) low-temperature phase transitions, where the chalcogenide anions in the channels experience a distortion in the form of In–Q bond alternation along the ab plane. Both compounds display re-entrant structural behavior, where the supercells appear on cooling but revert to the original subcell below 100 K, suggesting competing structural and electronic interactions dictate the overall structure. Notably, these materials are topological semimetal candidates with symmetry-protected Dirac crossings near the Fermi level and exhibit high electron mobilities (~1500 cm2 V–1 s–1 at 1.8 K) and moderate carrier concentrations (~1020 cm–3) from charge transport measurements. This work highlights metal flux as a synthetic route to high quality single crystals of novel intermetallic subchalcogenides with Dirac semimetal behavior.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division
Contributing Organization:
State of Illinois; Northwestern University - International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN); Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
1631579
Journal Information:
Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 142, Issue 13; ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 6 works
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