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Ca3Ga5

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MP-ID: mp-30473 · Space group: Cmcm (#63)

Basic Information

Formula
Ca3Ga5
MP-ID
mp-30473
Elements
2
Sites
16
Density
4.3827
g/cm³
Volume
355.28
ų
Cell a
4.4419
Å
Cell b
5.7884
Å
Cell c
14.9631
Å
α Angle
90.00
°
β Angle
90.00
°
γ Angle
112.56
°
Space Group
Cmcm
Point Group
mmm
Crystal System
Orthorhombic
Bravais Lattice
Orthorhombic C
Stability
Yes
Packing Fraction
0.5240

X-ray Diffraction

Diffraction Pattern
X-axis: 2θ (°); Y-axis: relative intensity; CuKa ; λ=1.5406 Å
Diffraction Peaks (Top 24)
2θd (Å)Ihkl
11.83 7.4815 29.8 (0,0,2)
16.58 5.3454 27.8 (0,1,0)
20.42 4.3493 1.2 (0,1,2)
21.67 4.1019 5.1 (1,-1,0)
21.67 4.1019 5.1 (1,0,0)
22.47 3.9560 9.3 (1,-1,1)
22.47 3.9560 9.3 (1,0,1)
24.41 3.6467 21.8 (0,1,3)
29.14 3.0648 2.0 (0,1,4)
32.20 2.7796 2.4 (1,-2,0)
32.20 2.7796 2.4 (1,1,0)
32.39 2.7640 100.0 (1,-1,4)
32.77 2.7329 23.1 (1,-2,1)
32.77 2.7329 23.1 (1,1,1)
33.53 2.6727 17.7 (0,2,0)
34.08 2.6311 2.1 (0,2,1)
34.34 2.6112 12.4 (0,1,5)
34.42 2.6056 5.9 (1,-2,2)
35.67 2.5169 1.0 (0,2,2)
36.01 2.4939 18.6 (0,0,6)
37.02 2.4280 28.6 (1,-2,3)
37.02 2.4280 28.6 (1,1,3)
37.19 2.4176 1.7 (1,-1,5)
38.20 2.3558 26.8 (0,2,3)
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Energy Properties

Formation Energy/atom
-0.58458
eV/atom
Energy/atom
-10.37568
eV/atom
Energy above Hull
0.0000
eV/atom
Uncorrected Energy
-10.3757
eV/atom
Volume/atom
22.20
ų
c/a Ratio
-

Electronic Properties

Metallic
Metal
Band Gap
0
eV
Direct Gap
No
CBM
N/A
eV

Magnetic Properties

Magnetic
Yes
Total Mag. Moment
0.0000
μB
Mag. Ordering
Unknown
Mag. Sites
0
Magnetization/Volume
0.000000
μB/ų

Elastic Properties

Elastic data not available

Feature Analysis

Composition Overview

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Major / Matrix Element
Ga · 0.625
Element Family
N/A
Solute Fraction
0.375
Interstitial Fraction
0.000

Traditional Material Features

ROM Blended-Feature Radar
Rating & Classification
Tier
A
Score
0.679
Family
Binary Alloy
Matrix Element
Ga · 0.625

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Citation & References

Materials Project Page
https://materialsproject.org/materials/mp-30473
Reference Citation

The crystal structure and related material properties of Ca3Ga5 were obtained from the Materials Project database (MP-ID: mp-30473, database version v2026.04.13).

Literature Citation

Horton, M.K., Huck, P., Yang, R.X. et al. Accelerated data-driven materials science with the Materials Project. Nat. Mater. 24, 1522–1532 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02272-0

BibTeX
@article{Horton2025,
  author  = {Horton, Matthew K. and Huck, Patrick and Yang, Ruo Xi and Munro, Jason M. and Dwaraknath, Shyam and Ganose, Alex M. and Kingsbury, Ryan S. and Wen, Mingjian and Shen, Jimmy X. and Mathis, Tyler S. and Kaplan, Aaron D. and Berket, Karlo and Riebesell, Janosh and George, Janine and Rosen, Andrew S. and Spotte-Smith, Evan W. C. and McDermott, Matthew J. and Cohen, Orion A. and Dunn, Alex and Kuner, Matthew C. and Rignanese, Gian-Marco and Petretto, Guido and Waroquiers, David and Griffin, Sinead M. and Neaton, Jeffrey B. and Chrzan, Daryl C. and Asta, Mark and Hautier, Geoffroy and Cholia, Shreyas and Ceder, Gerbrand and Ong, Shyue Ping and Jain, Anubhav and Persson, Kristin A.},
  title   = {Accelerated data-driven materials science with the Materials Project},
  journal = {Nature Materials},
  year    = {2025},
  volume  = {24},
  number  = {10},
  pages   = {1522--1532},
  month   = {oct},
  doi     = {10.1038/s41563-025-02272-0},
  issn    = {1476-4660},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02272-0},
  abstract = {The Materials Project was launched formally in 2011 to drive materials discovery forwards through high-throughput computation and open data. More than a decade later, the Materials Project has become an indispensable tool used by more than 600,000 materials researchers around the world. This Perspective describes how the Materials Project, as a data platform and a software ecosystem, has helped to shape research in data-driven materials science. We cover how sustainable software and computational methods have accelerated materials design while becoming more open source and collaborative in nature. Next, we present cases where the Materials Project was used to understand and discover functional materials. We then describe our efforts to meet the needs of an expanding user base, through technical infrastructure updates ranging from data architecture and cloud resources to interactive web applications. Finally, we discuss opportunities to better aid the research community, with the vision that more accessible and easy-to-understand materials data will result in democratized materials knowledge and an increasingly collaborative community.}
}

3D Crystal Structure Rendering

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Raw CIF Data
# generated using pymatgen
data_Ca3Ga5
_symmetry_space_group_name_H-M   'P 1'
_cell_length_a   4.44188360
_cell_length_b   5.78840738
_cell_length_c   14.96308132
_cell_angle_alpha   90.00000000
_cell_angle_beta   90.00000000
_cell_angle_gamma   112.56231781
_symmetry_Int_Tables_number   1
_chemical_formula_structural   Ca3Ga5
_chemical_formula_sum   'Ca6 Ga10'
_cell_volume   355.27666623
_cell_formula_units_Z   2
loop_
 _symmetry_equiv_pos_site_id
 _symmetry_equiv_pos_as_xyz
  1  'x, y, z'
loop_
 _atom_site_type_symbol
 _atom_site_label
 _atom_site_symmetry_multiplicity
 _atom_site_fract_x
 _atom_site_fract_y
 _atom_site_fract_z
 _atom_site_occupancy
  Ca  Ca0  1  0.12881041  0.25761881  0.75000000  1.0
  Ca  Ca1  1  0.87118959  0.74238119  0.25000000  1.0
  Ca  Ca2  1  0.59049262  0.18098324  0.10958089  1.0
  Ca  Ca3  1  0.40950838  0.81901676  0.89041911  1.0
  Ca  Ca4  1  0.40950838  0.81901676  0.60958089  1.0
  Ca  Ca5  1  0.59049262  0.18098324  0.39041911  1.0
  Ga  Ga6  1  0.83491730  0.66983260  0.75000000  1.0
  Ga  Ga7  1  0.16508270  0.33016740  0.25000000  1.0
  Ga  Ga8  1  0.29269079  0.58538159  0.40019842  1.0
  Ga  Ga9  1  0.70730921  0.41461841  0.59980158  1.0
  Ga  Ga10  1  0.70730921  0.41461841  0.90019842  1.0
  Ga  Ga11  1  0.29269079  0.58538159  0.09980158  1.0
  Ga  Ga12  1  0.11615842  0.23231584  0.53344700  1.0
  Ga  Ga13  1  0.88384158  0.76768416  0.46655300  1.0
  Ga  Ga14  1  0.88384158  0.76768416  0.03344700  1.0
  Ga  Ga15  1  0.11615842  0.23231584  0.96655300  1.0
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