1.1. Interest of Inorganic Metal Fluorides Inorganic metal fluorides and oxide-fluorides have
significant importance in the development of many new technologies, and are impacting …

Cesium lead iodide possesses an excellent combination of band gap and absorption
coefficient for photovoltaic applications in its perovskite phase. However, this is not its …

Ionic compounds wherein lanthanide cations are arrayed alongside anions adopt a wide
range of crystal structures as a result of the variation of ionic radii and electronic …

Understanding high-temperature unconventional superconductivity has become a long-
lasting problem in which the cuprates stand as central reference materials. Given this …

A general method to carry out the fluorination of metal oxides with poly (tetrafluoroethylene)(
PTFE, Teflon) waste by spark plasma sintering (SPS) on a minute scale with Teflon is …

Rare-earth upconversion (UC) nanophosphors that can convert near-infrared excitations
into the visible light region are desirable for various applications such as photonics …

Crystal structure prediction has been performed via the global exploration of the energy
landscape of lanthanum oxyiodide (LaOI), using simulated annealing and involving over …

Self-emitting blue and red EuOX (X= F, Cl, Br, and I) were successfully synthesized and
characterized. Far-infrared and Raman measurements revealed that the vibration modes …

Solid state reactions are notoriously slow, because the rate‐limiting step is diffusion of atoms
or ions through reactant, intermediate, and product crystalline phases. This requires days or …

Metal hydride oxides are an emerging field in solid-state research. While some lanthanide
hydride oxides (Ln HO) were known, YHO has only been found in thin films so far. Yttrium …