Journal
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 61, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202115778
Keywords
Metavalent Bonding; Multicenter Bonding; Phase-Change Materials; Wavefunction Analysis
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB 917]
- RWTH Aachen University's IT Center [jara0033]
- Projekt DEAL
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Layered phase-change materials in the Ge-Sb-Te system exhibit multicenter bonding, which leads to distinct long-range effects in the solid state and explains the metavalent properties as well as the origin of bond-breaking and phase change behavior.
Layered phase-change materials in the Ge-Sb-Te system are widely used in data storage and are the subject of intense research to understand the quantum-chemical origin of their unique properties. To uncover the nature of the underlying periodic wavefunction, we have studied the interacting atomic orbitals including their phases by means of crystal orbital bond index and fragment crystal orbital analysis. In full accord with findings based on projected force constants, we demonstrate the role of multicenter bonding along straight atomic connectivities. While the resulting multicenter bonding resembles three-center-four-electron bonding in molecules, its solid-state manifestation leads to distinct long-range consequences, thus serving to contextualize the material properties usually termed metavalent. Eventually we suggest multicenter bonding to be the origin of their astonishing bond-breaking and phase-change behavior, as well as the too small van-der-Waals gaps between individual layers.
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