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Be3C

Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm005498554 · Space group: Cmcm (#63)

Basic Information

Formula
Be3C
Alex-ID
agm005498554
Elements
2
Sites
8
Space group
Cmcm (#63)
Crystal system
orthorhombic
Volume
68.31
ų
Cell a
5.2848
Å
Cell b
5.2848
Å
Cell c
2.4650
Å
α angle
90.00
°
β angle
90.00
°
γ angle
97.16
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
Be3C
Be
6.00 · 75.0%
C
2.00 · 25.0%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.5517
eV/atom
Formation energy
0.3708
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-37.8385
eV
Raw total energy
-37.8385
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.0051
eV
DOS at Fermi level
1.1115
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

AB3_1044_spg63

Decomposition

Be2C Be

Computed at

2023-03-18 08:48:29.666004

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: agm005498554).

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 agm005498554
data_agm005498554
_cell_length_a     5.28476
_cell_length_b     5.28476
_cell_length_c     2.46503
_cell_angle_alpha  90.00000
_cell_angle_beta   90.00000
_cell_angle_gamma  97.16274
_cell_volume       68.30789
_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
  Be1 Be 0.22397 0.77603 0.75000 1.00000
  Be2 Be 0.77603 0.22397 0.25000 1.00000
  Be3 Be 0.11238 0.37287 0.75000 1.00000
  Be4 Be 0.88762 0.62713 0.25000 1.00000
  Be5 Be 0.62713 0.88762 0.75000 1.00000
  Be6 Be 0.37287 0.11238 0.25000 1.00000
  C1 C 0.54995 0.45005 0.25000 1.00000
  C2 C 0.45005 0.54995 0.75000 1.00000
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