“…For decades, researchers have shown great interests in exploring group VA chalcogenides, because the compounds of group VA chalcogenides had been found to have various interesting properties and promising applications in the fields including photocatalyst (BiOCl [1] ), thermoelectric (Bi 2 Te 3 [2] ), superconductivity (LaO 1-x F x BiS 2 [3] , Bi 4 O 4 S 3 [4] , and Bi 3 O 2 S 3 [5] ), and topologic physics (Sr x Bi 2 Se 3 [6] ). Compared with most of other chalcogenides of group VA with common layered structure, the MBiQ 2 (M=Li, Na and K; Q=S and Se) compounds [7][8][9][10] have a rare NaCl-type cubic structure, which are isomorphous with AgBiSe 2 [11] , in which alkali metal and bismuth atoms disorderly occupy the 4a sites, and the sulfur or selenium atoms occupy the 4b sites. Structural information of MBiQ 2 compounds were only solved from powder X-ray diffraction data.…”