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Ac2MgCdTe5

Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm005154757 · Space group: Cmc2_1 (#36)

Basic Information

Formula
Ac2MgCdTe5
Alex-ID
agm005154757
Elements
4
Sites
18
Space group
Cmc2_1 (#36)
Crystal system
orthorhombic
Volume
600.79
ų
Cell a
4.5638
Å
Cell b
10.0136
Å
Cell c
13.5016
Å
α angle
90.00
°
β angle
90.00
°
γ angle
103.17
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
Ac2MgCdTe5
Ac
4.00 · 22.2%
Mg
2.00 · 11.1%
Cd
2.00 · 11.1%
Te
10.00 · 55.6%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.0414
eV/atom
Formation energy
-1.1530
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-73.6417
eV
Raw total energy
-73.6417
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
1.1558
eV
Direct band gap
1.3115
eV
DOS at Fermi level
-0.0030
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

ABC2D5_211_spg36

Decomposition

MgTe Ac2Te3 CdTe

Computed at

2023-01-16 05:02:49.838663

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: agm005154757).

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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Raw CIF Data
# CIF generated by HEAS from Alexandria entry agm005154757
data_agm005154757
_cell_length_a     4.56381
_cell_length_b     10.01361
_cell_length_c     13.50165
_cell_angle_alpha  90.00000
_cell_angle_beta   90.00000
_cell_angle_gamma  103.17231
_cell_volume       600.79415
_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
  Ac1 Ac 0.86692 0.73384 0.80402 1.00000
  Ac2 Ac 0.11490 0.22979 0.68840 1.00000
  Ac3 Ac 0.13308 0.26616 0.30402 1.00000
  Ac4 Ac 0.88510 0.77021 0.18840 1.00000
  Mg1 Mg 0.79622 0.59244 0.51459 1.00000
  Mg2 Mg 0.20378 0.40756 0.01459 1.00000
  Cd1 Cd 0.55897 0.11794 0.95796 1.00000
  Cd2 Cd 0.44103 0.88206 0.45796 1.00000
  Te1 Te 0.35300 0.70601 0.99972 1.00000
  Te2 Te 0.69230 0.38459 0.85289 1.00000
  Te3 Te 0.49593 0.99187 0.77336 1.00000
  Te4 Te 0.28675 0.57350 0.65965 1.00000
  Te5 Te 0.95111 0.90222 0.57338 1.00000
  Te6 Te 0.64700 0.29399 0.49972 1.00000
  Te7 Te 0.30770 0.61541 0.35289 1.00000
  Te8 Te 0.50407 0.00813 0.27336 1.00000
  Te9 Te 0.71325 0.42650 0.15965 1.00000
  Te10 Te 0.04889 0.09778 0.07338 1.00000
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