Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes

AFLOW Prototype: A12B_tI26_139_fij_a

  • M. J. Mehl, D. Hicks, C. Toher, O. Levy, R. M. Hanson, G. L. W. Hart, and S. Curtarolo, The AFLOW Library of Crystallographic Prototypes: Part 1, Comp. Mat. Sci. 136, S1-S828 (2017). (doi=10.1016/j.commatsci.2017.01.017)
  • D. Hicks, M. J. Mehl, E. Gossett, C. Toher, O. Levy, R. M. Hanson, G. L. W. Hart, and S. Curtarolo, The AFLOW Library of Crystallographic Prototypes: Part 2, Comp. Mat. Sci. 161, S1-S1011 (2019). (doi=10.1016/j.commatsci.2018.10.043)
  • D. Hicks, M.J. Mehl, M. Esters, C. Oses, O. Levy, G.L.W. Hart, C. Toher, and S. Curtarolo, The AFLOW Library of Crystallographic Prototypes: Part 3, Comp. Mat. Sci. 199, 110450 (2021). (doi=10.1016/j.commatsci.2021.110450)

Mn12Th ($D2_{b}$) Structure: A12B_tI26_139_fij_a

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Prototype : Mn12Th
AFLOW prototype label : A12B_tI26_139_fij_a
Strukturbericht designation : $D2_{b}$
Pearson symbol : tI26
Space group number : 139
Space group symbol : $\text{I4/mmm}$
AFLOW prototype command : aflow --proto=A12B_tI26_139_fij_a
--params=
$a$,$c/a$,$x_{3}$,$x_{4}$


Other compounds with this structure

  • AgBe12, Al8Cr4Er, Fe4Mn8, Fe7Mn5, others.

Body-centered Tetragonal primitive vectors:

\[ \begin{array}{ccc} \mathbf{a}_1 & = & - \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}} + \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} + \frac12 \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}\\ \mathbf{a}_2 & = & ~ \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}} - \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} + \frac12 \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}\\ \mathbf{a}_3 & = & ~ \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}} + \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} - \frac12 \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}\\ \end{array} \]

Basis vectors:

\[ \begin{array}{ccccccc} & & \text{Lattice Coordinates} & & \text{Cartesian Coordinates} &\text{Wyckoff Position} & \text{Atom Type} \\ \mathbf{B}_{1} & =&0 \, \mathbf{a}_{1} + 0 \, \mathbf{a}_{2} + 0 \, \mathbf{a}_{3} & =&0 \mathbf{\hat{x}} + 0 \mathbf{\hat{y}} + 0 \mathbf{\hat{z}} & \left(2a\right) & \text{Th} \\ \mathbf{B}_{2} & =&\frac12 \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ \frac12 \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ \frac12 \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&\frac14 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ \frac14 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ \frac14 \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(8f\right) & \text{Mn I} \\ \mathbf{B}_{3} & =&\frac12 \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&\frac14 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ \frac14 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ \frac34 \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(8f\right) & \text{Mn I} \\ \mathbf{B}_{4} & =&\frac12 \, \mathbf{a}_{1}& =&\frac34 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ \frac14 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ \frac14 \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(8f\right) & \text{Mn I} \\ \mathbf{B}_{5} & =&\frac12 \, \mathbf{a}_{2}& =&\frac14 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ \frac34 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ \frac14 \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(8f\right) & \text{Mn I} \\ \mathbf{B}_{6} & =&x_{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ x_{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&x_{3} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}& \left(8i\right) & \text{Mn II} \\ \mathbf{B}_{7} & =&- x_{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}- x_{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&- x_{3} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}& \left(8i\right) & \text{Mn II} \\ \mathbf{B}_{8} & =&x_{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ x_{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&x_{3} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}& \left(8i\right) & \text{Mn II} \\ \mathbf{B}_{9} & =&- x_{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}- x_{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&- x_{3} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}& \left(8i\right) & \text{Mn II} \\ \mathbf{B}_{10} & =&\frac12 \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ x_{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ \left(\frac12 + x_{4}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&x_{4} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}& \left(8j\right) & \text{Mn III} \\ \mathbf{B}_{11} & =&\frac12 \, \mathbf{a}_{1}- x_{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ \left( \frac12 - x_{4} \right) \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&- x_{4} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}& \left(8j\right) & \text{Mn III} \\ \mathbf{B}_{12} & =&x_{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ \frac12 \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ \left( \frac12 + x_{4} \right) \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&\frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ x_{4} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}& \left(8j\right) & \text{Mn III} \\ \mathbf{B}_{13} & =&- x_{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ \frac12 \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ \left( \frac12 - x_{4} \right) \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&\frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}- x_{4} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}& \left(8j\right) & \text{Mn III} \\ \end{array} \]

References

  • J. V. Florio, R. E. Rundle, and A. I. Snow, Compounds of thorium with transition metals. I. The thorium–manganese system, Acta Cryst. 5, 449–457 (1952), doi:10.1107/S0365110X52001337.

Found in

  • P. Villars and L. Calvert, Pearson's Handbook of Crystallographic Data for Intermetallic Phases (ASM International, Materials Park, OH, 1991), 2nd edn., pp. 4396.

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