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Jianqiao He1,2, Yangwu Guo2,3, Wenjuan Huang4
1State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure , Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai 200050 , P. R. China.
Abstract:
A new chalcogenide Na2ZnSnS4 has been successfully synthesized by using Na2S2 as reactive flux. Na2ZnSnS4 crystallizes in the tetragonal system with space group of I4̅. Its cell parameters are a = 6.4835(6) Å and c = 9.134(1) Å. The structure is a derivative of AgGaS2, in which the Ag+ ions are replaced by Na+ ions and the Ga3+ ions are replaced by Zn2+ and Sn4+ ions. All three cations are in seriously distorted tetrahedral geometry with a distortion factor (η = c/ a) of 1.4. Optical measurements show that the Na2ZnSnS4 powder sample has a large transparent range from 0.8 to 25 μm and a wide band gap of 3.1 eV. It exhibits large second-harmonic generation intensity of 0.9 × AgGaS2 in the grain size range from 41 to 74 μm. First-principles calculation results reveal that the valence band maximum and conduction band minimum are mainly composed of S 3p, Zn 3d orbitals and Sn 5s, S 3p orbitals, respectively.
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