Sublimation crystal growth of yttrium nitride
What is yttrium nitride?Yttrium nitride is a dark gray powder, which is a kind of rare earth nitride. It has a very high melting point and keeps stable under high temperatures. So yttrium nitride can apply to refractory materials like titanium nitride and zirconium nitride. Yttrium nitride, Y5N14, was synthesized by a direct reaction between yttrium and nitrogen at ∼50 GPa and ∼2000 K in a laser-heated diamond anvil cell. High-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction revealed that the crystal s