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The indium chalcogenides include all compounds of indium with the chalcogen elements, oxygen, sulfur, selenium and tellurium. (Polonium is excluded as little is known about its compounds with indium). The best-characterised compounds are the In(III) and In(II) chalcogenides e.g. the sulfides In2S3 and InS.
This group of compounds has attracted a lot of research attention because they include semiconductors, photovoltaics and phase-change materials. In many applications indium chalcogenides are used as the basis of ternary and quaternary compounds such as indium tin oxide, ITO and copper indium gallium selenide, CIGS.

Some compounds that were reported and have found their way into text books have not been substantiated by later researchers. The list of compounds below shows compounds that have been reported, and those compounds that have not had their structure determined, or whose existence has not been confirmed by the latest structural investigations, are in italics.

oxide sulfide selenide telluride
In2O In2Se
In4S3 In4Se3 In4Te3
In5S4
InS InSe InTe
In6S7 In6Se7
In3S4 In3Te4
In7Te10
In2O3 In2S3 In2Se3 In2Te3
In3Te5
In2Te5

There are a lot of compounds, the reason for this being that indium can be present as

  • In3+, oxidation state +3
  • In+, oxidation state +1
  • In4+
    2
    units, oxidation state of +2, also found in some indium halides, e.g. In2Br3.
  • nonlinear In5+
    3
    units isoelectronic with Hg2+
    3
    .

The compound In2Te5 is a polytelluride containing the Te2−
3
unit.
None of the indium chalcogenides can be described simply as ionic in nature, they all involve a degree of covalent bonding. However, in spite of this it is useful to formulate the compounds in ionic terms to get an insight into how the structures are built up. Compounds almost invariably have multiple polymorphs, that is they can crystallise in slightly different forms depending on either the method of production, or the substrate upon which they are deposited. Many of the compounds are made up of layers, and it is the different ways that the layers are stacked that is a cause of polymorphism.

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