Mechanical and thermal properties versus effective cubic lattice constant in Cu2-II-IV-VI4 quaternary compounds

  • Authors

    • Marouane Djellal Faculté des sciences et de la technologie, Université de Bordj Bou Arreridj, Bordj BouArreridj, 34000, Algérie
    • Aymen Mebarki Faculté des sciences et de la technologie, Université de Bordj Bou Arreridj, Bordj BouArreridj, 34000, Algérie
    • Abdelfateh Benmakhlouf Faculté des sciences et de la technologie, Université de Bordj Bou Arreridj, Bordj BouArreridj, 34000, Algérie
    • Salah Daoud Laboratory of Materials and Electronic Systems (LMSE), Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Bordj Bou Arreridj University, 34000 Bordj Bou Arreridj, Algeria
    2022-06-08
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijac.v10i1.32053
  • Cu2-II-IV-VI4 Semiconductors, Least-Squares Fit, Thermal Properties, Effective Cubic Lattice Constant, Microhardness

  • Abstract

    The present work aims to study the dependence of the bulk modulus B and the Debye temperature θD with the effective cubic lattice constant aeff of some Cu2-II-IV-VI4 compounds. We are also studied the correlation between the bulk modulus B, the Debye temperature θD, the microhardness H and the melting point Tm.

    The fits of the data of the bulk modulus B and the Debye temperature θD versus the effective cubic lattice constant aeff show that B of Cu2-II-IV-VI4 semiconducting materials decreases almost linearly with increase of the effective cubic lattice constant aeff, while that of Debye Temperature θD decreases exponentially with a rising of the effective cubic lattice constant aeff. The coefficients of the correlation were found at around -0.78 for the bulk modulus B, and at around -0.94 for the Debye temperature, respectively.

    For the bulk modulus B, the best fit was obtained using the following expression: B = - 596.52 aeff + 393.4, where B is expressed in GPa, and aeff in nm, while that of θD is: θD = 165.46 + 3.8 exp (-57.2 aeff), respectively. The average error on the estimation of B was found at around 10%, while that on the estimation of θD is only around 4.5%, respectively. Our expressions perhaps used with high accurate to predict the bulk modulus B and the Debye temperature θD of other quaternary Cu2-II-IV-VI4 semiconducting materials.

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    Djellal, M., Mebarki, A., Benmakhlouf, A., & Daoud, S. (2022). Mechanical and thermal properties versus effective cubic lattice constant in Cu2-II-IV-VI4 quaternary compounds. International Journal of Advanced Chemistry, 10(1), 32-35. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijac.v10i1.32053

    Received date: 2022-04-22

    Accepted date: 2022-05-16

    Published date: 2022-06-08