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Interplay of Atomic Interactions in the Intermetallic Semiconductor Be5 Pt.

ABSTRACT: Semiconducting substances form one of the most important families of functional materials. However, semiconductors containing only metals are very rare. The chemical mechanisms behind their ground-state properties are only partially understood. Our investigations have rather unexpectedly revealed the semiconducting behaviour (band gap of 190?meV) for the intermetallic compound Be5 Pt formed at a very low valence-electron count. Quantum-chemical analysis shows strong charge transfer from Be to Pt and reveals a three-dimensional entity of vertex-condensed empty Be4 tetrahedrons with multi-atomic cluster bonds interpenetrated by the framework of Pt-filled vertex-condensed Be4 tetrahedrons with two-atomic polar Be-Pt bonds. The combination of strong Coulomb interactions with relativistic effects results in a band gap.

SUBMITTER: Amon A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7754163 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

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Interplay of Atomic Interactions in the Intermetallic Semiconductor Be5 Pt.

Amon Alfred A Svanidze Eteri E Ormeci Alim A König Marcus M Kasinathan Deepa D Takegami Daisuke D Prots Yurii Y Liao Yen-Fa YF Tsuei Ku-Ding KD Tjeng Liu Hao LH Leithe-Jasper Andreas A Grin Yuri Y

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20190924 44

Semiconducting substances form one of the most important families of functional materials. However, semiconductors containing only metals are very rare. The chemical mechanisms behind their ground-state properties are only partially understood. Our investigations have rather unexpectedly revealed the semiconducting behaviour (band gap of 190 meV) for the intermetallic compound Be5 Pt formed at a very low valence-electron count. Quantum-chemical analysis shows strong charge transfer fr ...[more]

PMID: 31483920

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