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EuCd2

Traditional Materials TRA

MP-ID: mp-30487 · Space group: Imma (#74)

Basic Information

Formula
EuCd2
MP-ID
mp-30487
Elements
2
Sites
6
Density
7.5549
g/cm³
Volume
165.63
ų
Cell a
5.0445
Å
Cell b
6.2686
Å
Cell c
6.2686
Å
α Angle
76.88
°
β Angle
66.27
°
γ Angle
66.27
°
Space Group
Imma
Point Group
mmm
Crystal System
Orthorhombic
Bravais Lattice
Orthorhombic I
Stability
Yes
Packing Fraction
0.6800

X-ray Diffraction

Diffraction Pattern
X-axis: 2θ (°); Y-axis: relative intensity; CuKa ; λ=1.5406 Å
Diffraction Peaks (Top 24)
2θd (Å)Ihkl
15.49 5.7215 2.4 (0,1,0)
15.49 5.7215 2.4 (0,0,1)
20.52 4.3280 1.5 (1,1,1)
20.52 4.3280 1.5 (1,0,0)
22.82 3.8973 1.4 (0,1,-1)
29.92 2.9866 30.8 (1,2,1)
29.92 2.9866 30.8 (1,1,2)
30.88 2.8962 40.1 (1,2,0)
30.88 2.8962 80.1 (1,-1,1)
30.88 2.8962 40.1 (1,1,-1)
31.27 2.8607 32.3 (0,2,0)
31.27 2.8607 32.3 (0,0,2)
33.93 2.6420 6.1 (0,2,1)
33.93 2.6420 6.1 (0,1,2)
35.59 2.5223 69.8 (2,1,1)
36.18 2.4828 19.3 (0,2,-1)
36.18 2.4828 19.3 (0,1,-2)
36.62 2.4537 100.0 (1,2,2)
43.59 2.0764 1.4 (1,3,1)
43.59 2.0764 1.4 (1,-2,0)
43.59 2.0764 2.8 (1,1,3)
44.75 2.0253 4.1 (1,3,0)
44.75 2.0253 4.1 (1,0,3)
46.61 1.9487 9.6 (0,2,-2)
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Energy Properties

Formation Energy/atom
-0.38233
eV/atom
Energy/atom
-26.62595
eV/atom
Energy above Hull
0.0000
eV/atom
Uncorrected Energy
-26.6260
eV/atom
Volume/atom
27.61
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
14.6420
μB
Mag. Ordering
Unknown
Mag. Sites
0
Magnetization/Volume
0.088400
μB/ų

Elastic Properties

Elastic data not available

Feature Analysis

Composition Overview

Element Composition (atomic fraction)
Composition Info
Major / Matrix Element
Cd · 0.667
Element Family
N/A
Solute Fraction
0.333
Interstitial Fraction
0.000

Traditional Material Features

ROM Blended-Feature Radar
Rating & Classification
Tier
A
Score
0.623
Family
Binary Alloy
Matrix Element
Cd · 0.667

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Citation & References

Materials Project Page
https://materialsproject.org/materials/mp-30487
Reference Citation

The crystal structure and related material properties of EuCd2 were obtained from the Materials Project database (MP-ID: mp-30487, 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_EuCd2
_symmetry_space_group_name_H-M   'P 1'
_cell_length_a   5.04452270
_cell_length_b   6.26857231
_cell_length_c   6.26856876
_cell_angle_alpha   76.88474797
_cell_angle_beta   66.27379641
_cell_angle_gamma   66.27380793
_symmetry_Int_Tables_number   1
_chemical_formula_structural   EuCd2
_chemical_formula_sum   'Eu2 Cd4'
_cell_volume   165.63154648
_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
  Eu  Eu0  1  0.95793485  0.79206515  0.29206515  1.0
  Eu  Eu1  1  0.04206515  0.20793485  0.70793485  1.0
  Cd  Cd2  1  0.66489250  0.78229171  0.88792129  1.0
  Cd  Cd3  1  0.33510750  0.21770829  0.11207871  1.0
  Cd  Cd4  1  0.33510750  0.61207871  0.71770829  1.0
  Cd  Cd5  1  0.66489250  0.38792129  0.28229171  1.0
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