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Mg5Si6

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Alex-ID: agm005287159 · Space group: Cm (#8)

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Basic Information

Formula
Mg5Si6
Alex-ID
agm005287159
Elements
2
Sites
22
Space group
Cm (#8)
Crystal system
monoclinic
Volume
404.97
ų
Cell a
15.3513
Å
Cell b
15.3513
Å
Cell c
6.8534
Å
α angle
75.50
°
β angle
75.50
°
γ angle
15.02
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
Mg5Si6
Mg
10.00 · 45.5%
Si
12.00 · 54.5%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.1605
eV/atom
Formation energy
0.0534
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-79.8473
eV
Raw total energy
-79.8473
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.0052
eV
DOS at Fermi level
5.8081
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

A5B6_444_spg8

Decomposition

Mg2Si Si

Computed at

2023-05-09 02:42:42.893759

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: agm005287159).

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 agm005287159
data_agm005287159
_cell_length_a     15.35134
_cell_length_b     15.35134
_cell_length_c     6.85342
_cell_angle_alpha  75.49528
_cell_angle_beta   75.49528
_cell_angle_gamma  15.01939
_cell_volume       404.97035
_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 0.73761 0.73761 0.00166 1.00000
  Mg2 Mg 0.94633 0.94633 0.53049 1.00000
  Mg3 Mg 0.52148 0.52148 0.62754 1.00000
  Mg4 Mg 0.36950 0.36950 0.43995 1.00000
  Mg5 Mg 0.78140 0.78140 0.53458 1.00000
  Mg6 Mg 0.10877 0.10877 0.55053 1.00000
  Mg7 Mg 0.48448 0.48448 0.17805 1.00000
  Mg8 Mg 0.40599 0.40599 0.88492 1.00000
  Mg9 Mg 0.21244 0.21244 0.42535 1.00000
  Mg10 Mg 0.15617 0.15617 0.00640 1.00000
  Si1 Si 0.67727 0.67727 0.70251 1.00000
  Si2 Si 0.66287 0.66287 0.31929 1.00000
  Si3 Si 0.91755 0.91755 0.18774 1.00000
  Si4 Si 0.97304 0.97304 0.87695 1.00000
  Si5 Si 0.59308 0.59308 0.87141 1.00000
  Si6 Si 0.29705 0.29705 0.17791 1.00000
  Si7 Si 0.85275 0.85275 0.74735 1.00000
  Si8 Si 0.04024 0.04024 0.31855 1.00000
  Si9 Si 0.59064 0.59064 0.23728 1.00000
  Si10 Si 0.29736 0.29736 0.80689 1.00000
  Si11 Si 0.84351 0.84351 0.11966 1.00000
  Si12 Si 0.04584 0.04584 0.95136 1.00000
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