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Ca3Al5

Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm005491554 · Space group: Cmmm (#65)

Basic Information

Formula
Ca3Al5
Alex-ID
agm005491554
Elements
2
Sites
8
Space group
Cmmm (#65)
Crystal system
orthorhombic
Volume
183.20
ų
Cell a
6.3596
Å
Cell b
6.3596
Å
Cell c
4.5356
Å
α angle
90.00
°
β angle
90.00
°
γ angle
92.90
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
Ca3Al5
Ca
3.00 · 37.5%
Al
5.00 · 62.5%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.2245
eV/atom
Formation energy
-0.0913
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-25.4641
eV
Raw total energy
-25.4641
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.0000
eV
DOS at Fermi level
4.4665
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

A3B5_3_spg65

Decomposition

Ca8Al3 CaAl2

Computed at

2023-03-18 08:00:53.483120

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: agm005491554).

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 agm005491554
data_agm005491554
_cell_length_a     6.35957
_cell_length_b     6.35957
_cell_length_c     4.53560
_cell_angle_alpha  90.00000
_cell_angle_beta   90.00000
_cell_angle_gamma  92.90355
_cell_volume       183.20326
_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
  Ca1 Ca 0.50000 0.50000 0.00000 1.00000
  Ca2 Ca 0.76414 0.23586 0.50000 1.00000
  Ca3 Ca 0.23586 0.76414 0.50000 1.00000
  Al1 Al 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 1.00000
  Al2 Al 0.00000 0.50000 0.00000 1.00000
  Al3 Al 0.50000 0.00000 0.00000 1.00000
  Al4 Al 0.24753 0.24753 0.50000 1.00000
  Al5 Al 0.75247 0.75247 0.50000 1.00000
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