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Mg3CdIn

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Alex-ID: agm003705474 · Space group: Cmcm (#63)

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Basic Information

Formula
Mg3CdIn
Alex-ID
agm003705474
Elements
3
Sites
10
Space group
Cmcm (#63)
Crystal system
orthorhombic
Volume
247.96
ų
Cell a
4.8306
Å
Cell b
5.7350
Å
Cell c
9.8493
Å
α angle
90.00
°
β angle
90.00
°
γ angle
114.67
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
Mg3CdIn
Mg
6.00 · 60.0%
Cd
2.00 · 20.0%
In
2.00 · 20.0%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.1042
eV/atom
Formation energy
0.0097
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-16.8569
eV
Raw total energy
-16.8569
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.0514
eV
DOS at Fermi level
3.6178
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

ABC3_1427_spg63

Decomposition

Mg3In Mg4In3 MgCd

Computed at

2022-04-16 03:49:04.240670

Citation

Alexandria website
https://alexandria.icams.rub.de/
Attribution

The crystal structure and related material properties of this entry were obtained from the Alexandria database (Alex-ID: agm003705474).

Reference

Th. Cavignac, J. Schmidt, P.-P. De Breuck, A. Loew, T. F. T. Cerqueira, H.-C. Wang, A. Bochkarev, Y. Lysogorskiy, A. H. Romero, R. Drautz, S. Botti and M. A. L. Marques. AI-Driven expansion and application of the Alexandria database. J. Phys. Mater. 9, 025014 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7639/ae6620

BibTeX 
@article{Cavignac2026Alexandria,
  author  = {Cavignac, Th{\'e}o and Schmidt, Jonathan and De Breuck, Pierre-Paul and Loew, Antoine
             and Cerqueira, Tiago F. T. and Wang, Hai-Chen and Bochkarev, Anton
             and Lysogorskiy, Yury and Romero, Aldo H. and Drautz, Ralf and Botti, Silvana
             and Marques, Miguel A. L.},
  title   = {{AI}-Driven expansion and application of the {A}lexandria database},
  journal = {Journal of Physics: Materials},
  year    = {2026},
  volume  = {9},
  number  = {2},
  pages   = {025014},
  doi     = {10.1088/2515-7639/ae6620},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7639/ae6620}
}

3D Crystal Structure Rendering

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Style: Ball & Stick
Raw CIF Data 
# CIF generated by HEAS from Alexandria entry agm003705474
data_agm003705474
_cell_length_a     4.83057
_cell_length_b     5.73503
_cell_length_c     9.84926
_cell_angle_alpha  90.00000
_cell_angle_beta   90.00000
_cell_angle_gamma  114.66897
_cell_volume       247.95610
_symmetry_space_group_name_H-M 'P 1'
_symmetry_Int_Tables_number 1
loop_
_symmetry_equiv_pos_as_xyz
  'x, y, z'
loop_
_atom_site_label
_atom_site_type_symbol
_atom_site_fract_x
_atom_site_fract_y
_atom_site_fract_z
_atom_site_occupancy
  Mg1 Mg 0.65717 0.31553 0.49377 1.00000
  Mg2 Mg 0.34283 0.68447 0.50623 1.00000
  Mg3 Mg 0.34283 0.68447 0.99377 1.00000
  Mg4 Mg 0.65717 0.31553 0.00623 1.00000
  Mg5 Mg 0.85255 0.70957 0.25000 1.00000
  Mg6 Mg 0.14745 0.29043 0.75000 1.00000
  Cd1 Cd 0.17256 0.34617 0.25000 1.00000
  Cd2 Cd 0.82744 0.65383 0.75000 1.00000
  In1 In 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 1.00000
  In2 In 0.00000 0.00000 0.50000 1.00000
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