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Most of the III-VI compounds crystallize in layer-type structures. The bonding is strongly covalent within the layers and much weaker between them. In the binary compounds, the cations prefer the tetrahedral coordination. Cation pairs in the crystal saturate the bonding and are responsible for the semiconducting behavior, unless a fraction of the cation are monovalent in corresponding crystallographic sites. Polytypism and stacking faults are frequent but have minor influence on several properties.
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Madelung, O. (2004). IIIx-VIy compounds. In: Semiconductors: Data Handbook. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18865-7_21
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