Yttrium nitride

Yttrium nitride
Identifiers
25764-13-0 Yes
Properties
YN
Molar mass 102.913 g/mol
Appearance black crystalline
Density 5.60 g/cm3
soluble
Structure
Crystal structure cubic, cF8
Space group Fm3m, No. 225
Hazards
MSDS External MSDS
EU classification not listed
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Yttrium nitride, YN, is a nitride of yttrium.

Yttrium nitride is hard ceramic material similar to titanium nitride and zirconium nitride.

The nitrides of lanthanum, scandium, and yttrium show semiconducting properties and additionally the lattice structure of YN differs only by 8% from that of gallium nitride. This makes YN a possible buffer layer between a substrate and the GaN layer during GaN crystal growth.

References


Noboru Takeuchi