Benzene thermal conversion to nanocrystalline indium nitride from sulfide at low temperature

Jianping Xiao; Yi Xie; Rui Tang; Wei Luo

doi:10.1021/ic0258330

Benzene thermal conversion to nanocrystalline indium nitride from sulfide at low temperature

Inorg Chem. 2003 Jan 13;42(1):107-11. doi: 10.1021/ic0258330.

Authors

Jianping Xiao¹, Yi Xie, Rui Tang, Wei Luo

Affiliation

¹ Structure Research Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China.

PMID: 12513083
DOI: 10.1021/ic0258330

Abstract

A benzene thermal conversion route has been successfully developed to prepare nanocrystalline indium nitride at 180-200 degrees C by choosing NaNH(2) and In(2)S(3) as novel nitrogen and indium sources. This route has been also extended to the synthesis of other group III nitrides. The product InN was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and high-resolution TEM, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Raman spectroscopy, and infrared spectroscopy (IR). The optical properties of nanocrystalline InN were also recorded by means of UV-vis absorption spectroscopy and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy, indicating that the as-prepared sample was within the quantum confinement regime. Finally, the formation mechanism was also investigated.