• Journal of Inorganic Materials
  • Vol. 39, Issue 5, 554 (2024)
Min JIN1, Yupeng MA2, Tianran WEI2, Siqi LIN1..., Xudong BAI3, Xun SHI4 and Xuechao LIU4,*|Show fewer author(s)
Author Affiliations
  • 11. School of Materials Science, Shanghai Dianji University, Shanghai 201306, China
  • 22. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • 33. Wuzhen Laboratory, Tongxiang 314500, China
  • 44. Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
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    DOI: 10.15541/jim20230524 Cite this Article
    Min JIN, Yupeng MA, Tianran WEI, Siqi LIN, Xudong BAI, Xun SHI, Xuechao LIU. Growth and Characterization of Large-size InSe Crystal from Non-stoichiometric Solution via a Zone Melting Method [J]. Journal of Inorganic Materials, 2024, 39(5): 554 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Indium selenide (InSe) is a III-VI group semiconductor with interesting physical properties and has wide potential applications in the fields of photovoltaics, optics, thermoelectrics, and so on. However, the production of large-size InSe crystal is difficult due to the inconsistent melting of In and Se elements and peritectic reactions between InSe, In6Se7 and In4Se3 phases. In this work, a zone melting method, which has advantages of low cost and solid-liquid interface optimization, is employed for InSe crystal preparation. Because the initial mole ratio of In to Se is of great importance to InSe crystal growth, the non-stoichiometric In0.52Se0.48 solution was precisely used for growth based on the peritectic reaction of In-Se system, resulting in a InSe crystal productivity ratio at about 83%. An ingot with dimensions ϕ27 mm×130 mm is obtained with a typical slab-like InSe crystal in the size of ϕ27 mm×50 mm. The successfully peeled cleavage plane exhibits the good single-crystalline character as only (00l) peaks are detected in the X-ray diffraction pattern. This crystal has a hexagonal structure, and its elements are distributed uniformly in the matrix with transmittance of ~55.1% at 1800 nm wavelength, band gap energy of about 1.22 eV, a maximum electrical conductivity (σ) of about 1.55×102 S·m-1 along the (001) direction, and a lowest thermal conductivity (κ) of about 0.48 W·m-1·K-1 perpendicular to the (001) direction at 800 K. These results imply that the zone melting method is indeed an effective approach for fabricating large-size InSe crystal, which could be applied for various fields. Above measured electrical and thermal behaviors are expected to provide a significant reference for InSe crystal application in the future.
    $\frac{{{M}_{\text{InSe}}}}{{{M}_{\text{Ingot}}}}=\frac{{{C}_{0}}-{{C}_{\text{p}}}}{{{C}_{\text{InSe}}}-{{C}_{\text{p}}}}$

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    (αhv)2= C(hv–Eg)

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    α= (1/d)ln(100/T)

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    $\kappa =\frac{3NRD\rho }{M}$

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    Min JIN, Yupeng MA, Tianran WEI, Siqi LIN, Xudong BAI, Xun SHI, Xuechao LIU. Growth and Characterization of Large-size InSe Crystal from Non-stoichiometric Solution via a Zone Melting Method [J]. Journal of Inorganic Materials, 2024, 39(5): 554
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