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BeCd2

Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm005448563 · Space group: Pnnm (#58)

Basic Information

Formula
BeCd2
Alex-ID
agm005448563
Elements
2
Sites
6
Space group
Pnnm (#58)
Crystal system
orthorhombic
Volume
122.66
ų
Cell a
2.9478
Å
Cell b
6.3967
Å
Cell c
6.5053
Å
α angle
90.00
°
β angle
90.00
°
γ angle
90.00
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
BeCd2
Be
2.00 · 33.3%
Cd
4.00 · 66.7%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.4005
eV/atom
Formation energy
0.4005
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-8.7437
eV
Raw total energy
-8.7437
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.0409
eV
DOS at Fermi level
2.4374
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

AB2_2011_spg58

Decomposition

Cd Be

Computed at

2023-03-18 07:52:45.281763

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: agm005448563).

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 agm005448563
data_agm005448563
_cell_length_a     2.94776
_cell_length_b     6.39665
_cell_length_c     6.50531
_cell_angle_alpha  90.00000
_cell_angle_beta   90.00000
_cell_angle_gamma  90.00000
_cell_volume       122.66296
_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 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 1.00000
  Be2 Be 0.50000 0.50000 0.50000 1.00000
  Cd1 Cd 0.00000 0.27324 0.72758 1.00000
  Cd2 Cd 0.00000 0.72676 0.27242 1.00000
  Cd3 Cd 0.50000 0.77324 0.77242 1.00000
  Cd4 Cd 0.50000 0.22676 0.22758 1.00000
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