The structural diversity of ABS₃ compounds with d electronic configuration for the B-cation
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Brehm, John A., Joseph W. Bennett, Michael Rutenberg Schoenberg, Ilya Grinberg, and Andrew M. Rappe. “The Structural Diversity of ABS₃ Compounds with d Electronic Configuration for the B-Cation.” The Journal of Chemical Physics 140, no. 22 (2014): 224703. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4879659.
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This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in Brehm, John A., Joseph W. Bennett, Michael Rutenberg Schoenberg, Ilya Grinberg, and Andrew M. Rappe. “The Structural Diversity of ABS₃ Compounds with d Electronic Configuration for the B-Cation.” The Journal of Chemical Physics 140, no. 22 (2014): 224703. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4879659. and may be found at https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article/140/22/224703/352777/The-structural-diversity-of-ABS3-compounds-with-d
Abstract
We use first-principles density functional theory within the local density approximation to ascertain the ground state structure of real and theoretical compounds with the formula ABS₃ (A = K, Rb, Cs, Ca, Sr, Ba, Tl, Sn, Pb, and Bi; and B = Sc, Y, Ti, Zr, V, and Nb) under the constraint that B must have a d⁰ electronic configuration. Our findings indicate that none of these AB combinations prefer a perovskite ground state with corner-sharing BS₆ octahedra, but that they prefer phases with either edge- or face-sharing motifs. Further, a simple two-dimensional structure field map created from A and B ionic radii provides a neat demarcation between combinations preferring face-sharing versus edge-sharing phases for most of these combinations. We then show that by modifying the common Goldschmidt tolerance factor with a multiplicative term based on the electronegativity difference between A and S, the demarcation between predicted edge-sharing and face-sharing ground state phases is enhanced. We also demonstrate that, by calculating the free energy contribution of phonons, some of these compounds may assume multiple phases as synthesis temperatures are altered, or as ambient temperatures rise or fall.