Syntheses, crystal and electronic structures of three new potassium cadmium(II)/zinc(II) tellurides: K2Cd2Te3, K6CdTe4 and K2ZnTe2 |
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| Authors: | Min-Jie Li Chun-Li Hu Yong Zhou Jiang-Gao Mao |
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| Affiliation: | a State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, P.R. China
b Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, P.R. China |
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| Abstract: | Three new ternary potassium(I) zinc(II) or cadmium(II) tellurides, namely, K2Cd2Te3, K6CdTe4 and K2ZnTe2, were synthesized by solid-state reactions of the mixture of pure elements of K, Cd (or Zn) and Te in Nb tubes at high temperature. K2Cd2Te3 belongs to a new structure type and its structure contains a novel two-dimensional Cd2Te3]2− layers perpendicular to the b-axis. K(5) cation is located at the center of five member rings of the 2D Cd2Te3]2− layer, whereas other K+ cations occupy the interlayer space. K6CdTe4 with a K6HgS4 type structure features a “zero-dimensional” structure composed of isolated CdTe4 tetrahedra separated by the K+ ions. K2ZnTe2 in the K2ZnO2 structural type displays 1D ZnTe2]2− anionic chains of edge sharing ZnTe4] tetrahedra separated by the potassium(I) ions. K2Cd2Te3, K6CdTe4 and K2ZnTe2 revealed a band gap of 1.93, 2.51 and 3.0 eV, respectively. |
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| Keywords: | Ternary tellurides Solid-state syntheses Crystal structures Band structure calculations |
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