Yttrium nitride

Yttrium nitride

Identifiers
CAS Number	25764-13-0 Y
Properties
Chemical formula	YN
Molar mass	102.913 g/mol
Appearance	black crystalline
Density	5.60 g/cm3
Solubility in water	soluble
Structure
Crystal structure	cubic, cF8
Space group	Fm3m, No. 225
Hazards
Safety data sheet	External MSDS
EU classification (DSD)	not listed
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Infobox references

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

• CP Kempter, NH Krikorian, JC McGuire (1957). "The Crystal Structure of Yttrium Nitride". The Journal of Physical Chemistry 61 (9): 1237–1238. doi:10.1021/j150555a023. 
• Luis Mancera, Jairo Rodr´ıguez and Noboru Takeuchi (2003). "First principles calculations of the ground state properties and structural phase transformation in YN" (PDF). J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 15 (17): 2625–2633. doi:10.1088/0953-8984/15/17/316. 
• W. De La Cruz, J. A. Díaz, L. Mancera, N. Takeuchi and G. Soto (2003). "Yttrium nitride thin films grown by reactive laser ablation". Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 64 (11): 2273–2279. doi:10.1016/S0022-3697(03)00259-2. 
• G. Soto, M.G. Moreno-Armentaa and A. Reyes-Serrato (2008). "First principles study on the formation of yttrium nitride in cubic and hexagonal phases". Computational Materials Science 42 (1): 8–13. doi:10.1016/j.commatsci.2007.06.003. 

Noboru Takeuchi