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Ca6MgCd5

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Alex-ID: agm006085705 · Space group: Immm (#71)

Basic Information

Formula
Ca6MgCd5
Alex-ID
agm006085705
Elements
3
Sites
12
Space group
Immm (#71)
Crystal system
orthorhombic
Volume
343.86
ų
Cell a
5.4754
Å
Cell b
7.6304
Å
Cell c
9.4756
Å
α angle
113.74
°
β angle
106.79
°
γ angle
90.00
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
Ca6MgCd5
Ca
6.00 · 50.0%
Mg
1.00 · 8.3%
Cd
5.00 · 41.7%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.0048
eV/atom
Formation energy
-0.3078
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-21.9179
eV
Raw total energy
-21.9179
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.0029
eV
DOS at Fermi level
9.7624
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

AB5C6_55_spg71

Decomposition

Ca5Cd3 CaMg2 CaCd

Computed at

2023-08-31 22:06:10.361778

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: agm006085705).

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 agm006085705
data_agm006085705
_cell_length_a     5.47540
_cell_length_b     7.63042
_cell_length_c     9.47563
_cell_angle_alpha  113.74295
_cell_angle_beta   106.79334
_cell_angle_gamma  89.99994
_cell_volume       343.85576
_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 0.83044 0.57712 0.66088 1.00000
  Ca2 Ca 0.83044 0.08376 0.66088 1.00000
  Ca3 Ca 0.50001 0.74291 0.00000 1.00000
  Ca4 Ca 0.49999 0.25709 1.00000 1.00000
  Ca5 Ca 0.16956 0.91624 0.33912 1.00000
  Ca6 Ca 0.16956 0.42288 0.33912 1.00000
  Mg1 Mg 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 1.00000
  Cd1 Cd 0.66055 0.16055 0.32111 1.00000
  Cd2 Cd 0.33363 0.33363 0.66727 1.00000
  Cd3 Cd 0.00000 0.50000 0.00000 1.00000
  Cd4 Cd 0.66637 0.66637 0.33273 1.00000
  Cd5 Cd 0.33945 0.83945 0.67889 1.00000
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