Abstract
A combination of structural, physical, and computational techniques including powder X-ray and neutron diffraction, SQUID magnetometry, electrical and thermal transport measurements, DFT calculations, and 119Sn Mossbauer and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopies has been applied to Co3Sn2–xInxS2 (0 ≤ x ≤ 2) in an effort to understand the relationship between metal-atom ordering and physical properties as the Fermi level is systematically varied. While solid solution behavior is found throughout the composition region, powder neutron diffraction reveals that indium preferentially occupies an interlayer site over an alternative kagome-like intralayer site. DFT calculations indicate that this ordering, which leads to a lowering of energy, is related to the differing bonding properties of tin and indium. Spectroscopic data suggest that throughout the composition range 0 ≤ x ≤ 2, all elements adopt oxidation states that are significantly reduced from expectations based on formal charges. Chemical substitution ena...
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