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La8Si3Cl4

Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm005705279 · Space group: R-3m (#166)

Basic Information

Formula
La8Si3Cl4
Alex-ID
agm005705279
Elements
3
Sites
15
Space group
R-3m (#166)
Crystal system
trigonal
Volume
481.97
ų
Cell a
8.5482
Å
Cell b
8.5482
Å
Cell c
9.0754
Å
α angle
61.90
°
β angle
61.90
°
γ angle
60.00
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
La8Si3Cl4
La
8.00 · 53.3%
Si
3.00 · 20.0%
Cl
4.00 · 26.7%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.1368
eV/atom
Formation energy
-1.2625
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-79.6418
eV
Raw total energy
-79.6418
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.0244
eV
DOS at Fermi level
10.2636
Total magnetisation
0.0005
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

A3B4C8_7_spg166

Decomposition

La5Si3 La3SiCl3 La

Computed at

2023-06-29 19:17:41.820898

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: agm005705279).

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 agm005705279
data_agm005705279
_cell_length_a     8.54820
_cell_length_b     8.54820
_cell_length_c     9.07545
_cell_angle_alpha  61.90378
_cell_angle_beta   61.90378
_cell_angle_gamma  60.00001
_cell_volume       481.96736
_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
  La1 La 0.23780 0.23780 0.28661 1.00000
  La2 La 0.22585 0.74627 0.28162 1.00000
  La3 La 0.74627 0.74627 0.28162 1.00000
  La4 La 0.74627 0.22585 0.28162 1.00000
  La5 La 0.76220 0.76220 0.71339 1.00000
  La6 La 0.77415 0.25373 0.71838 1.00000
  La7 La 0.25373 0.25373 0.71838 1.00000
  La8 La 0.25373 0.77415 0.71838 1.00000
  Si1 Si 0.50000 0.00000 0.50000 1.00000
  Si2 Si 0.00000 0.00000 0.50000 1.00000
  Si3 Si 0.00000 0.50000 0.50000 1.00000
  Cl1 Cl 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 1.00000
  Cl2 Cl 0.36103 0.36103 0.91691 1.00000
  Cl3 Cl 0.50000 0.50000 0.50000 1.00000
  Cl4 Cl 0.63897 0.63897 0.08309 1.00000
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