Solid State Chemistry and its Applications. Anthony R. WestЧитать онлайн книгу.
R. W. G. Wyckoff, Crystal Structures, Vols 1 to 6, Wiley (1971).
The three anions at
The octahedral site in Fig. 1.35(d) is coordinated to three anions at c = 0 and three anions at
The coordination environments of the cations in wurtzite and NiAs are emphasised in Fig. 1.35(f) and (g). Zinc is shown in T+ sites and forms ZnS4 tetrahedra (f), linked at their corners to form a 3D network, as in (j). A similar structure results on considering the tetrahedra formed by four Zn atoms around a S. The tetrahedral environment of S (1) is shown in (f). The SZn4 tetrahedron which it forms points down, in contrast to the ZnS4 tetrahedra, all of which point up; on turning the SZn4 tetrahedra upside down, however, the same structure results.
Comparing larger scale models of zinc blende [Fig. 1.33(b)] and wurtzite [Fig. 1.35(j)], they are clearly very similar and both can be regarded as networks of tetrahedra. In zinc blende, layers of tetrahedra form an ABC stacking sequence and the orientation of the tetrahedra within each layer is identical. In wurtzite, the layers form an AB sequence and alternate layers are rotated by 180° about c relative to each other.
The NiAs6 octahedra in NiAs are shown in Fig. 1.35(g). They share one pair of opposite faces (e.g. the face formed by arsenic ions 1, 2 and 3) to form chains of face‐sharing octahedra that run parallel to c. In the ab plane, however, the octahedra share only edges: As atoms 3 and 4 are shared between two octahedra such that chains of edge‐sharing octahedra form parallel to b. Similarly, chains of edge‐sharing octahedra form parallel to a (not shown). A more extended view of the octahedra and their linkages is shown in (k).
The NiAs structure is unusual in that the anions and cations have the same coordination number but different coordination environments. Since the cation:anion ratio is 1:1 and the Ni coordination is octahedral, As must also be six‐coordinate. However, the six Ni neighbours are arranged as in a trigonal prism and not octahedrally. This is shown for As at
The NiAs structure may also be regarded as built of AsNi6 trigonal prisms, therefore, which link up by sharing edges to form a 3D array. In Fig. 1.35(i), each triangle represents a prism in projection down c. The prism edges that run parallel to c, i.e. those formed by Ni at
The NiAs structure can be described as hcp As with Ni in fully occupied octahedral interstitial sites. However, unlike the case of NaCl where Na and Cl positions are interchangeable, we cannot simply exchange Ni, As and arrive at the same structural description. If we consider the arrangement of Ni alone, it still forms cp layers but the stacking sequence along c is identical because Ni atoms are superposed in projection, Fig. 1.35(h). Since both As and Ni form cp layers, we