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CdTe3

Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm005488570 · Space group: P6_3/mmc (#194)

Basic Information

Formula
CdTe3
Alex-ID
agm005488570
Elements
2
Sites
8
Space group
P6_3/mmc (#194)
Crystal system
hexagonal
Volume
243.31
ų
Cell a
8.2503
Å
Cell b
8.2503
Å
Cell c
4.1275
Å
α angle
90.00
°
β angle
90.00
°
γ angle
120.00
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
CdTe3
Cd
2.00 · 25.0%
Te
6.00 · 75.0%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.2995
eV/atom
Formation energy
0.0709
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-20.1299
eV
Raw total energy
-20.1299
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.0000
eV
DOS at Fermi level
5.2031
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

AB3_26_spg194

Decomposition

CdTe Te

Computed at

2023-03-18 17:17:26.273051

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: agm005488570).

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 agm005488570
data_agm005488570
_cell_length_a     8.25034
_cell_length_b     8.25034
_cell_length_c     4.12752
_cell_angle_alpha  90.00000
_cell_angle_beta   90.00000
_cell_angle_gamma  120.00000
_cell_volume       243.31177
_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 0.66667 0.33333 0.75000 1.00000
  Cd2 Cd 0.33333 0.66667 0.25000 1.00000
  Te1 Te 0.17061 0.82939 0.75000 1.00000
  Te2 Te 0.82939 0.17061 0.25000 1.00000
  Te3 Te 0.65879 0.82939 0.75000 1.00000
  Te4 Te 0.34121 0.17061 0.25000 1.00000
  Te5 Te 0.82939 0.65879 0.25000 1.00000
  Te6 Te 0.17061 0.34121 0.75000 1.00000
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