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Cd5Si

Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm005459382 · Space group: P6/mmm (#191)

Basic Information

Formula
Cd5Si
Alex-ID
agm005459382
Elements
2
Sites
6
Space group
P6/mmm (#191)
Crystal system
hexagonal
Volume
144.04
ų
Cell a
5.6395
Å
Cell b
5.6395
Å
Cell c
5.2297
Å
α angle
90.00
°
β angle
90.00
°
γ angle
120.00
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
Cd5Si
Cd
5.00 · 83.3%
Si
1.00 · 16.7%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.3818
eV/atom
Formation energy
0.3818
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-7.7498
eV
Raw total energy
-7.7498
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.0000
eV
DOS at Fermi level
2.0044
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

AB5_7_spg191

Decomposition

Si Cd

Computed at

2023-03-21 22:51:31.216962

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: agm005459382).

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 agm005459382
data_agm005459382
_cell_length_a     5.63946
_cell_length_b     5.63946
_cell_length_c     5.22974
_cell_angle_alpha  90.00000
_cell_angle_beta   90.00000
_cell_angle_gamma  120.00000
_cell_volume       144.04116
_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 0.33333 0.66667 0.00000 1.00000
  Cd2 Cd 0.66667 0.33333 0.00000 1.00000
  Cd3 Cd 0.50000 0.00000 0.50000 1.00000
  Cd4 Cd 0.00000 0.50000 0.50000 1.00000
  Cd5 Cd 0.50000 0.50000 0.50000 1.00000
  Si1 Si 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 1.00000
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