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Mg3Cd2Ga

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Alex-ID: agm034153533 · Space group: P-3m1 (#164)

Basic Information

Formula
Mg3Cd2Ga
Alex-ID
agm034153533
Elements
3
Sites
6
Space group
P-3m1 (#164)
Crystal system
trigonal
Volume
125.58
ų
Cell a
4.8885
Å
Cell b
4.8885
Å
Cell c
6.0679
Å
α angle
90.00
°
β angle
90.00
°
γ angle
120.00
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
Mg3Cd2Ga
Mg
3.00 · 50.0%
Cd
2.00 · 33.3%
Ga
1.00 · 16.7%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.0180
eV/atom
Formation energy
-0.1036
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-10.2818
eV
Raw total energy
-10.2818
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.0000
eV
DOS at Fermi level
1.6574
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

AB2C3_76_spg164

Decomposition

MgCd MgGa

Computed at

2025-04-13 16:35:44

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: agm034153533).

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 agm034153533
data_agm034153533
_cell_length_a     4.88848
_cell_length_b     4.88848
_cell_length_c     6.06788
_cell_angle_alpha  90.00000
_cell_angle_beta   90.00000
_cell_angle_gamma  120.00000
_cell_volume       125.57858
_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
  Mg1 Mg 0.00000 0.00000 0.50000 1.00000
  Mg2 Mg 0.66667 0.33333 0.84685 1.00000
  Mg3 Mg 0.33333 0.66667 0.15315 1.00000
  Cd1 Cd 0.66667 0.33333 0.34034 1.00000
  Cd2 Cd 0.33333 0.66667 0.65966 1.00000
  Ga1 Ga 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 1.00000
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