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Semiconductor Clathrates: In Situ Studies of Their High Pressure, Variable Temperature and Synthesis Behavior

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The Physics and Chemistry of Inorganic Clathrates

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In situ studies have provided valuable new information on the synthesis mechanisms, low temperature properties and high pressure behavior of semiconductor clathrates. Here we review work using synchrotron and laboratory X-ray diffraction and Raman scattering used to study mainly Si-based clathrates under a variety of conditions. During synthesis of the Type I clathrate Na8Si46 by metastable thermal decomposition from NaSi in vacuum, we observe an unusual quasi-epitaxial process where the clathrate structure appears to nucleate and grow directly from the Na-deficient Zintl phase surface. Low temperature X-ray studies of the guest-free Type II clathrate framework Si136 reveal a region of negative thermal expansion behavior as predicted theoretically and analogous to that observed for diamond-structured Si. High pressure studies of Si136 lead to metastable production of the β-Sn structured Si-II phase as well as perhaps other metastable crystalline materials. High pressure investigations of Type I clathrates show evidence for a new class of apparently isostructural densification transformations followed by amorphization in certain cases.

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Machon, D., McMillan, P.F., San-Miguel, A., Barnes, P., Hutchins, P.T. (2014). Semiconductor Clathrates: In Situ Studies of Their High Pressure, Variable Temperature and Synthesis Behavior. In: Nolas, G. (eds) The Physics and Chemistry of Inorganic Clathrates. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 199. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9127-4_4

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