title: Structural and luminescence studies of the new nitridomagnesoaluminate CaMg2AlN3.
abstract: CaMg(2)AlN(3) was synthesized in a closed system by solid state reaction from binary nitrides. Structure refinements based on powder X-ray diffraction data suggested ambiguity about the occupancy of magnesium and aluminum tetrahedral sites. Solid-state (27)Al and (25)Mg NMR studies were used to adjudicate amongst possible space groups. With reference to projector augmented wave calculations of the quadrupolar coupling constants, the measured values of CQ and the numbers of crystallographically inequivalent Al and Mg sites indicate that CaMg(2)AlN(3) crystallizes in the space group P6(3)/mmc with partial occupancy of the distorted tetrahedral Al site and possibly also mixing of Mg(2+) and Al(3+) ions on opposite sites. The compound obtained by synthesis with a flux shows orange defect-related luminescence at room temperature.
authors.affiliation: Section for Solid State and Theoretical Inorganic Chemistry, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 18, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. mariusz.kubus@anorg.uni-tuebingen.de.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kubus
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Levin
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kroeker
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Enseling
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authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jüstel
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authors.lastname: Meyer