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Ca6AlIn5

Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm006115410 · Space group: Cmmm (#65)

Basic Information

Formula
Ca6AlIn5
Alex-ID
agm006115410
Elements
3
Sites
12
Space group
Cmmm (#65)
Crystal system
orthorhombic
Volume
337.77
ų
Cell a
5.4114
Å
Cell b
7.6674
Å
Cell c
8.5786
Å
α angle
90.00
°
β angle
71.62
°
γ angle
90.00
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
Ca6AlIn5
Ca
6.00 · 50.0%
Al
1.00 · 8.3%
In
5.00 · 41.7%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.0223
eV/atom
Formation energy
-0.4063
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-34.4814
eV
Raw total energy
-34.4814
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.0035
eV
DOS at Fermi level
6.8519
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

AB5C6_95_spg12

Decomposition

Ca8In3 CaAl2 CaIn

Computed at

2023-08-17 11:02:18.820017

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: agm006115410).

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 agm006115410
data_agm006115410
_cell_length_a     5.41137
_cell_length_b     7.66745
_cell_length_c     8.57864
_cell_angle_alpha  89.99992
_cell_angle_beta   71.61518
_cell_angle_gamma  89.99977
_cell_volume       337.77239
_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 0.83537 0.75269 0.32930 1.00000
  Ca2 Ca 0.83533 0.24731 0.32930 1.00000
  Ca3 Ca 0.50003 0.24527 0.00000 1.00000
  Ca4 Ca 0.49997 0.75473 1.00000 1.00000
  Ca5 Ca 0.16467 0.75269 0.67070 1.00000
  Ca6 Ca 0.16463 0.24731 0.67070 1.00000
  Al1 Al 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 1.00000
  In1 In 0.66721 0.50000 0.66557 1.00000
  In2 In 0.33331 1.00000 0.33338 1.00000
  In3 In 0.00000 0.50000 0.00000 1.00000
  In4 In 0.66669 0.00000 0.66662 1.00000
  In5 In 0.33279 0.50000 0.33443 1.00000
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