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Ca8Ga4Cu

Alexandria ALEX

Alex-ID: agm098089986 · Space group: Amm2 (#38)

Basic Information

Formula
Ca8Ga4Cu
Alex-ID
agm098089986
Elements
3
Sites
13
Space group
Amm2 (#38)
Crystal system
orthorhombic
Volume
383.52
ų
Cell a
4.2589
Å
Cell b
10.3837
Å
Cell c
9.8294
Å
α angle
61.92
°
β angle
90.00
°
γ angle
90.01
°

Composition

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Formula
Ca8Ga4Cu
Ca
8.00 · 61.5%
Ga
4.00 · 30.8%
Cu
1.00 · 7.7%

Energy & Stability

Energy above hull
0.1064
eV/atom
Formation energy
-0.2275
eV/atom
Corrected total energy
-35.2507
eV
Raw total energy
-35.2507
eV

Electronic Structure

Indirect band gap
0.0000
eV
Direct band gap
0.0000
eV
DOS at Fermi level
6.8153
Total magnetisation
0.0000
μB

Additional Information

Prototype ID

AB4C8_785_spg1

Decomposition

Ca8Ga7 Ca28Ga11 Ca2GaCu2

Computed at

2025-06-02 13:38:58

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: agm098089986).

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 agm098089986
data_agm098089986
_cell_length_a     4.25893
_cell_length_b     10.38374
_cell_length_c     9.82941
_cell_angle_alpha  61.91979
_cell_angle_beta   90.00043
_cell_angle_gamma  90.00614
_cell_volume       383.52388
_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 0.73065 0.13924 0.18588 1.00000
  Ca2 Ca 0.73027 0.63937 0.17965 1.00000
  Ca3 Ca 0.73075 0.74123 0.62844 1.00000
  Ca4 Ca 0.73067 0.13687 0.67728 1.00000
  Ca5 Ca 0.23054 0.80645 0.31934 1.00000
  Ca6 Ca 0.23046 0.34583 0.33057 1.00000
  Ca7 Ca 0.23121 0.39435 0.80214 1.00000
  Ca8 Ca 0.23057 0.80494 0.87387 1.00000
  Ga1 Ga 0.23055 0.05376 0.97305 1.00000
  Ga2 Ga 0.73160 0.49688 0.98332 1.00000
  Ga3 Ga 0.73160 0.49553 0.51819 1.00000
  Ga4 Ga 0.23067 0.00263 0.49873 1.00000
  Cu1 Cu 0.73046 0.94291 0.02955 1.00000
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