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Structural, Optical, and Electronic Properties of Two Quaternary Chalcogenide Semiconductors: Ag2SrSiS4 and Ag2SrGeS4

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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 60, Issue 16, Pages 12206-12217

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c01416

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  1. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (BES) [DE-SC0020061]
  2. National Science Foundation [DGE-1644868, ACI-1548562]
  3. National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a U.S. (DOE) Office of Science User Facility [DE-AC02-05CH11231]

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Materials with quaternary chalcogenides have shown diversity and promise, with particular interest in the I-2-II-IV-X-4 family. Compounds containing both Ag and Sr have not been experimentally studied, but this research has synthesized and studied Ag2SrSiS4 and Ag2SrGeS4, with additional impurity phases identified. These materials exhibit indirect band gaps, with second-harmonic generation capabilities in the near-infrared range.
Quaternary chalcogenide materials have long been a source of semiconductors for optoelectronic applications. Recent studies on I-2-II-IV-X-4 (I = Ag, Cu, Li; II = Ba, Sr, Eu, Pb; IV = Si, Ge, Sn; X = S, Se) materials have shown particular versatility and promise among these compounds. These semiconductors take advantage of a diverse bonding scheme and chemical differences among cations to target a degree of antisite defect resistance. Within this set of compounds, the materials containing both Ag and Sr have not been experimentally studied and leave a gap in the full understanding of the family. Here, we have synthesized powders and single crystals of two Ag- and Sr-containing compounds, Ag2SrSiS4 and Ag2SrGeS4, each found to form in the tetragonal I (4) over bar 2m structure of Ag2BaGeS4. During the synthesis targeting the titl(e) compounds, two additional materials, Ag2Sr3Si2S8 and Ag2Sr3Ge2S8, have also been identified. These cubic compounds represent impurity phases during the synthesis of Ag2SrSiS4 and Ag2SrGeS4. We show through hybrid density functional theory calculations that Ag2SrSiS4 and Ag2SrGeS4 have highly dispersive band-edge states and indirect band gaps, experimentally measured as 2.08(1) and 1.73(2) eV, respectively. Second-harmonic generation measurements on Ag2SrSiS4 and Ag2SrGeS4 powders show frequency-doubling capabilities in the near-infrared range.

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