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Be2Cd

Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm005448561 · Space group: Fd-3m (#227)

Basic Information

Formula
Be2Cd
Alex-ID
agm005448561
Elements
2
Sites
6
Space group
Fd-3m (#227)
Crystal system
cubic
Volume
73.68
ų
Cell a
4.7057
Å
Cell b
4.7057
Å
Cell c
4.7057
Å
α angle
60.00
°
β angle
60.00
°
γ angle
60.00
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
Be2Cd
Be
4.00 · 66.7%
Cd
2.00 · 33.3%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.2782
eV/atom
Formation energy
0.2782
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-15.0826
eV
Raw total energy
-15.0826
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.0000
eV
DOS at Fermi level
0.5418
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

AB2_1_spg227

Decomposition

Cd Be

Computed at

2023-03-18 06:53:45.745245

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: agm005448561).

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 agm005448561
data_agm005448561
_cell_length_a     4.70574
_cell_length_b     4.70574
_cell_length_c     4.70574
_cell_angle_alpha  60.00000
_cell_angle_beta   60.00000
_cell_angle_gamma  60.00000
_cell_volume       73.68339
_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
  Be1 Be 0.62500 0.12500 0.12500 1.00000
  Be2 Be 0.12500 0.62500 0.12500 1.00000
  Be3 Be 0.12500 0.12500 0.62500 1.00000
  Be4 Be 0.12500 0.12500 0.12500 1.00000
  Cd1 Cd 0.50000 0.50000 0.50000 1.00000
  Cd2 Cd 0.75000 0.75000 0.75000 1.00000
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