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Cd5Te

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Alex-ID: agm005454773 · Space group: Amm2 (#38)

Basic Information

Formula
Cd5Te
Alex-ID
agm005454773
Elements
2
Sites
6
Space group
Amm2 (#38)
Crystal system
orthorhombic
Volume
158.06
ų
Cell a
7.1018
Å
Cell b
7.1018
Å
Cell c
5.7716
Å
α angle
90.00
°
β angle
90.00
°
γ angle
147.11
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
Cd5Te
Cd
5.00 · 83.3%
Te
1.00 · 16.7%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.1785
eV/atom
Formation energy
0.0261
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-7.6029
eV
Raw total energy
-7.6029
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.0405
eV
DOS at Fermi level
2.5376
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

AB5_269_spg38

Decomposition

CdTe Cd

Computed at

2023-03-19 08:15:33.790429

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: agm005454773).

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 agm005454773
data_agm005454773
_cell_length_a     7.10185
_cell_length_b     7.10185
_cell_length_c     5.77156
_cell_angle_alpha  90.00000
_cell_angle_beta   90.00000
_cell_angle_gamma  147.11220
_cell_volume       158.06351
_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 0.00619 0.99381 0.00000 1.00000
  Cd2 Cd 0.34178 0.65822 0.00000 1.00000
  Cd3 Cd 0.67650 0.32350 0.00000 1.00000
  Cd4 Cd 0.43493 0.56507 0.50000 1.00000
  Cd5 Cd 0.77493 0.22507 0.50000 1.00000
  Te1 Te 0.09900 0.90100 0.50000 1.00000
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