The advancement in semiconductor technology led to the development of novel materials with tailored properties. Besides the widely employed semiconductors like germanium, silicon, gallium arsenide, gallium nitride, gallium phosphide, cadmium sulfide, and composites, recently, the potential of carbide semiconductors has been widely explored to cater for the needs of the electronic industry. [1,2] Semiconducting thin films are extensively used in modern technological applications like plasma screen displays, organic light-emitting diodes, solar cells, and sensors. [2,3] Among the compound semiconductors, carbide-based electronic materials, primarily silicon carbide, are emerging as promising materials for applications demanding high power, fast switching speed, high temperature, better radiation tolerance, and high efficiency. [4,5] The success story of silicon carbide in electronics also tempted researchers to investigate other carbides.Carbides consisting of nonmetallic carbon (C) and metallic/semimetallic elements with lower electronegativity have various industrial uses due to their valuable structural and physical characteristics. [6,7] Although carbides have been used as refractory materials for more than a century, the scientific community is currently very interested in this material due to its use in a variety of scientific and technological disciplines. Carbides have uses in electronics and photonics in addition to the more conventional ones based on their durability and refractoriness. [5,6,[8][9][10] Excellent melting point and high chemical stability are crucial characteristics that define carbides as a refractory material. Covalent and interstitial carbides are found to satisfy these requirements. [6,7,11] Even if intermediate and salt-like carbides do not meet one or both of these requirements, they have industrial uses.Alkali, alkali earth, and group III metals with carbon combine to generate ionic carbides, sometimes referred to as salt-like (saline) carbides having extremely high ionic and electronegativity characteristics. The carbides formed by sodium are-Na 2 C 2 , NaC, NaC 64 , and NaC 2 with carbon atoms in chains, networks, and solitary. [9,12] These carbides have a graphite-like structure with metal atoms sandwiched in between the various layers of carbon atoms. The common type of saline carbide is the sodium carbide (Na 2 C 2 ), also known as disodium acetylide, which is an inert, clear material with no color. However, it quickly decomposes in the presence of acids/water/carbon, forming aliphatic hydrocarbons, which appear black or gray. Each Na þ ion in sodium carbide is surrounded by six C À ions that are in close proximity to it and vice versa. The ideal anti-CaF 2 structure is distorted by the spiral arrangement of the C 2 2À array in the sodium carbide structure. As a result, Na 2 C 2 crystallizes in an anti-CaF 2 structure deformed with a CC distance of 120 pm. The C 2 2À ions in them are loosely packed, which results in a low crystal density of 1.6 g cm À3 . [12,13] Sodium carbide f...