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Main Authors: Gao, Siyan, Jia, Junlin, Wang, Xu, Zhang, Yue-Yu, Xiang, Yijie, Li, Pei, Yi, Ruobing, Su, Xuchang, Shi, Guosheng, Qin, Feifei, Zheng, Yi-Feng, Chen, Lei, Qiang, Yu, Zhang, Junjie, Zhang, Lei, Fang, Haiping
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12889
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author Gao, Siyan
Jia, Junlin
Wang, Xu
Zhang, Yue-Yu
Xiang, Yijie
Li, Pei
Yi, Ruobing
Su, Xuchang
Shi, Guosheng
Qin, Feifei
Zheng, Yi-Feng
Chen, Lei
Qiang, Yu
Zhang, Junjie
Zhang, Lei
Fang, Haiping
author_facet Gao, Siyan
Jia, Junlin
Wang, Xu
Zhang, Yue-Yu
Xiang, Yijie
Li, Pei
Yi, Ruobing
Su, Xuchang
Shi, Guosheng
Qin, Feifei
Zheng, Yi-Feng
Chen, Lei
Qiang, Yu
Zhang, Junjie
Zhang, Lei
Fang, Haiping
contents The expanding applications call for novel new-generation wide-bandgap semiconductors. Here, we show that a compound only composed of the ordinary elements Na and Cl, namely three-dimensional NaCl2 crystal, is a wide-bandgap semiconductor. This finding benefits from the breaking of conventional stoichiometry frameworks in the theoretical design, leading to the discovery of three-dimensional XY2 (X = Na, Li, K; Y = Cl, F, Br, I) crystals, with covalent bonds of Y pairs inducing the wide bandgap from 2.24 to 4.45 eV. Crucially, such an unexpected NaCl2 crystal was successfully synthesized under ambient conditions. The unconventional stoichiometric strategy with other chemical elements potentially yields more wide-bandgap semiconductors, offering the capability for bandgap tuning. These unconventional stoichiometric materials may also exhibit superconductivity, transparent inorganic electrides, high-energy-density, and beyond.
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spellingShingle Wide-bandgap semiconductor of three-dimensional unconventional stoichiometric NaCl2 crystal
Gao, Siyan
Jia, Junlin
Wang, Xu
Zhang, Yue-Yu
Xiang, Yijie
Li, Pei
Yi, Ruobing
Su, Xuchang
Shi, Guosheng
Qin, Feifei
Zheng, Yi-Feng
Chen, Lei
Qiang, Yu
Zhang, Junjie
Zhang, Lei
Fang, Haiping
Materials Science
The expanding applications call for novel new-generation wide-bandgap semiconductors. Here, we show that a compound only composed of the ordinary elements Na and Cl, namely three-dimensional NaCl2 crystal, is a wide-bandgap semiconductor. This finding benefits from the breaking of conventional stoichiometry frameworks in the theoretical design, leading to the discovery of three-dimensional XY2 (X = Na, Li, K; Y = Cl, F, Br, I) crystals, with covalent bonds of Y pairs inducing the wide bandgap from 2.24 to 4.45 eV. Crucially, such an unexpected NaCl2 crystal was successfully synthesized under ambient conditions. The unconventional stoichiometric strategy with other chemical elements potentially yields more wide-bandgap semiconductors, offering the capability for bandgap tuning. These unconventional stoichiometric materials may also exhibit superconductivity, transparent inorganic electrides, high-energy-density, and beyond.
title Wide-bandgap semiconductor of three-dimensional unconventional stoichiometric NaCl2 crystal
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12889