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Mg4Si3

Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm005272933 · Space group: P1 (#1)

Basic Information

Formula
Mg4Si3
Alex-ID
agm005272933
Elements
2
Sites
14
Space group
P1 (#1)
Crystal system
triclinic
Volume
277.30
ų
Cell a
5.9169
Å
Cell b
6.0568
Å
Cell c
8.3713
Å
α angle
72.79
°
β angle
80.32
°
γ angle
76.74
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
Mg4Si3
Mg
8.00 · 57.1%
Si
6.00 · 42.9%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.1936
eV/atom
Formation energy
0.0590
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-44.4693
eV
Raw total energy
-44.4693
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.2330
eV
DOS at Fermi level
3.7868
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

A3B4_306_spg1

Decomposition

Mg2Si Si

Computed at

2023-05-06 17:45:19.940543

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: agm005272933).

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 agm005272933
data_agm005272933
_cell_length_a     5.91686
_cell_length_b     6.05677
_cell_length_c     8.37132
_cell_angle_alpha  72.78874
_cell_angle_beta   80.32466
_cell_angle_gamma  76.73753
_cell_volume       277.30202
_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 0.71593 0.84022 0.73785 1.00000
  Mg2 Mg 0.89232 0.68882 0.18257 1.00000
  Mg3 Mg 0.69107 0.35822 0.70062 1.00000
  Mg4 Mg 0.64007 0.19814 0.40345 1.00000
  Mg5 Mg 0.15938 0.04789 0.50651 1.00000
  Mg6 Mg 0.40610 0.89273 0.10221 1.00000
  Mg7 Mg 0.17868 0.55920 0.49211 1.00000
  Mg8 Mg 0.22352 0.62089 0.84741 1.00000
  Si1 Si 0.01621 0.19925 0.17898 1.00000
  Si2 Si 0.31344 0.41104 0.18897 1.00000
  Si3 Si 0.29469 0.16862 0.76130 1.00000
  Si4 Si 0.58596 0.73831 0.44524 1.00000
  Si5 Si 0.68362 0.44953 0.01127 1.00000
  Si6 Si 0.94906 0.07729 0.94141 1.00000
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