2015-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
SIPS 2015 Volume 8: Composite & Ceramic, Quasi-crystals and Nanomaterials

Editors:Kongoli F, Pech-Canul M, Kalemtas A, Werheit H
Publisher:Flogen Star OUTREACH
Publication Year:2015
Pages:300 pages
ISBN:978-1-987820-31-7
ISSN:2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series)
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    Electronic Structure and Physical Properties of Some Boron-Rich Ternary Compounds

    Jean-Francois Halet1;
    1INSTITUT DES SCIENCES CHIMIQUES DE RENNES, Rennes, France;
    Type of Paper: Invited
    Id Paper: 417
    Topic: 18

    Abstract:

    Compounds containing planar boron sheets are of current interest because of the important role of such sheets in the superconducting behavior of MgB2. Among them, solid state ternary borides of stoichiometry REMB4 such as YCrB4 (RE = rare earth metal and M = transition metal or heavy main group atom) exhibit infinite two-dimensional layers of boron atoms with topologies different from that encountered in MgB2. Parameters such as the symmetry, the electron count and the nature of the RE and M elements will be analyzed with the aid of density-functional band structure calculations to address the issues of structural arrangement and some physical properties, in particular thermoelectrical properties.

    Keywords:

    Characterization; Electrical; Materials;

    Cite this article as:

    Halet J. Electronic Structure and Physical Properties of Some Boron-Rich Ternary Compounds. In: Kongoli F, Pech-Canul M, Kalemtas A, Werheit H, editors. Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit SIPS 2015 Volume 8: Composite & Ceramic, Quasi-crystals and Nanomaterials. Volume 8. Montreal(Canada): FLOGEN Star Outreach. 2015. p. 193-194.