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CsGa2CuCl8

Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm004875792 · Space group: P-3 (#147)

Basic Information

Formula
CsGa2CuCl8
Alex-ID
agm004875792
Elements
4
Sites
12
Space group
P-3 (#147)
Crystal system
trigonal
Volume
354.16
ų
Cell a
6.5208
Å
Cell b
6.5208
Å
Cell c
9.6175
Å
α angle
90.00
°
β angle
90.00
°
γ angle
120.00
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
CsGa2CuCl8
Cs
1.00 · 8.3%
Ga
2.00 · 16.7%
Cu
1.00 · 8.3%
Cl
8.00 · 66.7%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.0405
eV/atom
Formation energy
-1.5717
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-39.9664
eV
Raw total energy
-39.9664
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
1.5915
eV
Direct band gap
1.5915
eV
DOS at Fermi level
-0.0001
Total magnetisation
0.1220
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

ABC2D8_320_spg147

Decomposition

GaCuCl4 CsGaCl4

Computed at

2022-12-19 22:01:00.581330

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: agm004875792).

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}
}

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Raw CIF Data
# CIF generated by HEAS from Alexandria entry agm004875792
data_agm004875792
_cell_length_a     6.52079
_cell_length_b     6.52079
_cell_length_c     9.61752
_cell_angle_alpha  90.00000
_cell_angle_beta   90.00000
_cell_angle_gamma  120.00000
_cell_volume       354.15527
_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
  Cs1 Cs 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 1.00000
  Ga1 Ga 0.66667 0.33333 0.27389 1.00000
  Ga2 Ga 0.33333 0.66667 0.72611 1.00000
  Cu1 Cu 0.00000 0.00000 0.50000 1.00000
  Cl1 Cl 0.33333 0.66667 0.95647 1.00000
  Cl2 Cl 0.32707 0.30244 0.34124 1.00000
  Cl3 Cl 0.69756 0.02462 0.34124 1.00000
  Cl4 Cl 0.66667 0.33333 0.04353 1.00000
  Cl5 Cl 0.30244 0.97538 0.65876 1.00000
  Cl6 Cl 0.67293 0.69756 0.65876 1.00000
  Cl7 Cl 0.02462 0.32707 0.65876 1.00000
  Cl8 Cl 0.97538 0.67293 0.34124 1.00000
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