Growth and crystal structure of the layered compound TlGaSe₂

Abstract

Abstract The semiconducting compound TlGaSe 2 was grown by solid state reaction technique. The crystal structure of this material was confirmed by single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction. TlGaSe 2 crystallizes in the monoclinic system with space group C2/c (No. 15), Z = 16 and unit cell parameters a = 10.779(2) Å, b = 10.776(1) Å, c = 15.663(5) Å, β = 99.993(6)°. The structural refinement converged to R(F) = 0.0719, R(F 2 ) = 0.0652 and S = 1.17. The structure consists of a three‐dimensional arrangement of distorted TlSe 8 and GaSe 4 polyhedrons. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)