title: Benzene thermal conversion to nanocrystalline indium nitride from sulfide at low temperature.
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.
authors.affiliation: Structure Research Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Jianping
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Luo