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CdC2

Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm005453064 · Space group: Cm (#8)

Basic Information

Formula
CdC2
Alex-ID
agm005453064
Elements
2
Sites
6
Space group
Cm (#8)
Crystal system
monoclinic
Volume
85.96
ų
Cell a
3.8844
Å
Cell b
3.8844
Å
Cell c
9.9735
Å
α angle
62.21
°
β angle
62.21
°
γ angle
41.20
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
CdC2
Cd
2.00 · 33.3%
C
4.00 · 66.7%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.9721
eV/atom
Formation energy
0.9721
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-32.9099
eV
Raw total energy
-32.9099
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.1719
eV
DOS at Fermi level
1.0291
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

AB2_3154_spg8

Decomposition

C Cd

Computed at

2023-03-19 07:33:19.720469

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: agm005453064).

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 agm005453064
data_agm005453064
_cell_length_a     3.88441
_cell_length_b     3.88441
_cell_length_c     9.97355
_cell_angle_alpha  62.21106
_cell_angle_beta   62.21106
_cell_angle_gamma  41.20028
_cell_volume       85.95527
_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
  Cd1 Cd 0.00851 0.00851 0.63853 1.00000
  Cd2 Cd 0.92931 0.92931 0.94247 1.00000
  C1 C 0.96182 0.96182 0.15383 1.00000
  C2 C 0.45333 0.45333 0.22044 1.00000
  C3 C 0.38751 0.38751 0.50749 1.00000
  C4 C 0.42618 0.42618 0.37057 1.00000
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