Tantalum arsenide is a compound of
tantalum and
arsenic with the
formula TaAs. It is notable as being the first topological
Weyl semimetal that was identified and characterized by
ARPES.[3]
Structure
Tantalum arsenide crystallizes in a body-centered
tetragonal unit cell with lattice parameters a = 3.44 Å and c = 11.65 Å. It belongs to the
space groupI41md.
Preparation
TaAs has been prepared by decomposing TaAs2 at 900 °C.[1] A more recent preparation yielded large, single crystals of TaAs by
chemical vapor transport with elemental precursors and
iodine as the transport agent:[2]