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Intriguing Structural Transition Inducing Variable Birefringences in ABa2MS4Cl (A = Rb, Cs; M = Ge, Sn)
journal contribution
posted on 2018-08-24, 19:48 authored by Yu Chu, Kui Wu, Xin Su, Jian Han, Zhihua Yang, Shilie PanA suite
of quinary thiohalides, ABa2MS4Cl (A = Rb, Cs;
M = Ge, Sn), have been successfully synthesized. ABa2MS4Cl (A = Rb, Cs; M = Ge, Sn) undergoes an interesting structural
transition from P21/c (α phase) to I4/mcm (β
phase), which also leads to obvious disparities on the birefringence
from 0.041 (α phase) to 0.094 (β phase). Moreover, the
result of deploying a real-space atom-cutting method on ABa2MS4Cl reveals that their (MS4)4– groups may take the major effect in terms of the anisotropy by a
structural transition.