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Original Articles

Thermal properties of chalcopyrite semiconductors

Pages 183-193 | Received 09 Aug 2008, Accepted 31 Oct 2008, Published online: 21 Jan 2009
 

Abstract

Thermal properties (i.e. lattice thermal expansion coefficient, αL, and heat of formation, −ΔH f) of chalcopyrite-structured solids were evaluated. Values of αL of and chalcopyrite semiconductors exhibit a linear relationship when plotted on a log–log scale against the nearest neighbour distance, d (Å), but fall on two straight lines according to the ionic charge product of the compounds. On the basis of this result, a simple lattice thermal expansion–heat of formation relationship is proposed and used to estimate the heat of formation of these semiconductors. Application of the proposed relationship to AIBIIIC2 VI and AIIBIVC2 V chalcopyrite semiconductors provides a better agreement with experimental data as compared to the values evaluated by earlier researchers. The results for αL differ from experimental data by 4% for ZnSiP2, 4.6% for ZnSnP2, 3.7% for CdGeP2, 0.78% for CuGaS2, 1.7% for CuGaTe2 and 4.3% for AgGaSe2. The results for heat of formation differ from experimental data by 2.9 for ZnSiP2, 0.9% for ZnGeP2, 0.97% for ZnSnP2, 1.9% for ZnSiAs2, 3% for ZnGeAs2, 4.8% for ZnSnAs2, 3.4% for CdGeP2, 2.7% for CdSnP2, 0.49% for CdGeAs2, 1.6% for CdSnAs2 and 3.8% for CuGaSe2.

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