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Mg2Si

Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm005241972 · Space group: P1 (#1)

Basic Information

Formula
Mg2Si
Alex-ID
agm005241972
Elements
2
Sites
12
Space group
P1 (#1)
Crystal system
triclinic
Volume
245.24
ų
Cell a
6.1206
Å
Cell b
5.9110
Å
Cell c
7.5942
Å
α angle
97.92
°
β angle
104.25
°
γ angle
108.63
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
Mg2Si
Mg
8.00 · 66.7%
Si
4.00 · 33.3%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.1977
eV/atom
Formation energy
0.0407
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-33.9608
eV
Raw total energy
-33.9608
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.1088
eV
DOS at Fermi level
3.2472
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

AB2_3311_spg1

Decomposition

Mg2Si

Computed at

2023-04-21 16:15:04.268432

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: agm005241972).

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 agm005241972
data_agm005241972
_cell_length_a     6.12063
_cell_length_b     5.91099
_cell_length_c     7.59419
_cell_angle_alpha  97.91564
_cell_angle_beta   104.25472
_cell_angle_gamma  108.62699
_cell_volume       245.23996
_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 0.97585 0.80269 0.89195 1.00000
  Mg2 Mg 0.80932 0.16810 0.70485 1.00000
  Mg3 Mg 0.35062 0.18252 0.76018 1.00000
  Mg4 Mg 0.75805 0.56667 0.15465 1.00000
  Mg5 Mg 0.32371 0.86226 0.38740 1.00000
  Mg6 Mg 0.51217 0.44359 0.47219 1.00000
  Mg7 Mg 0.21442 0.46539 0.05597 1.00000
  Mg8 Mg 0.92366 0.16674 0.31698 1.00000
  Si1 Si 0.20733 0.57323 0.67119 1.00000
  Si2 Si 0.94086 0.79908 0.52646 1.00000
  Si3 Si 0.56008 0.85071 0.93341 1.00000
  Si4 Si 0.42403 0.11947 0.12479 1.00000
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